Recent Blog Posts
Collaboration
Collaboration is a process of creating shared benefits. It’s also a process of co-evolution, of growing and adapting. Business punditry too often presents collaboration as a thing, or, worse, as...
Adaptive Challenges
Yesterday, a colleague asked why we don't use the term "goals" with Strategic Doing. Instead, we focus on outcomes that we can measure. What's the difference? The drawing below explains....
How to Become Better at Implementation
The US is good at invention but not very good at implementation. We have generated a boatload of Nobel prizes but stumble at the broader challenges of technology adoption and...
Take a New Approach to Strategy
Strategy in turbulent environments is different from conventional strategic planning. Traditional approaches are too expensive to formulate, too challenging to implement, and too brittle for a rapidly shifting environment. WHY...
Adapting through Knowledge & Learning
Let's start here: Knowledge and learning are critical to adaptation. Both guide our actions as we respond to our environment. By learning by doing, we generate new knowledge. With a...
Visual & Verbal Strategy Practice
Strategy practice now requires both verbal and visual language. Both must be clear and simple. But here's the rub. Finding the simplicity on the other side of complexity is not...
The Ingenuity Gap
Our ingenuity gap continues to grow. Our inability to design and guide "innovating networks" has led to the gap. But here's the good news. We can close the gap if...
Strategic Doing and Positive Deviance
In a turbulent world, strategy becomes everyone's business. Effective strategy requires us to link, leverage, and align resources to achieve shared outcomes. Collaboration can create new solutions to wicked problems. But...
Entrepreneurial ecosystem building in high gear in Indy
Entrepreneurial ecosystem building is key to community and national vitality. While our economy continues to experience post-pandemic bumps, this theme has been a constant in many of the conversations we...
Collaboration: A Process of Recombinant Innovation
Collaboration. It's the least understood term in the management lexicon. So let's start there. COLLABORATION: A PROCESS OF RECOMBINANT INNOVATION If you scour the management literature for a clear understanding...
Redefining Work: Three Forces That are Reshaping Jobs
THREE FORCES THAT ARE RESHAPING JOBS Rotman Management Magazine1 May 2018By John Hagel, Jeff Schwartz and Josh Bersin Three forces of change are leading to a profound shift in the...