Recent Blog Posts
Insights: Why Strategic Doing Beats Strategic Planning
A few weeks ago, I had a great conversation with Aga Bajer, of Culture Lab. In this interview, Aga and I discuss: The value of practice and discipline versus skimming...
Partnership with the Digital Enterprise Society
We are excited about a new partnership that is emerging with the Digital Enterprise Society, the Purdue Agile Strategy Lab, and the Purdue Digital Enterprise Center. Digital transformation of any...
A Course for Undergrads: The Science & Practice of Complex Collaboration
About the Course FALL 2020 | TECH 39900 | ENGR 39600 Want to improve how your groups and teams work together? Want to showcase to your future employers a valuable...
Purdue/Fraunhofer: New Offering Coming March 2019
Coming in March 2019, we are launching a new offering. Company teams will get insights into how German firms accelerate innovation by leveraging the power of the world's leading applied...
Lab’s First MOOC: 1,800+ Participants from 124 Countries
In an experiment with FutureLearn, Purdue's online partner, the Lab has launched a three-week introductory course on agile strategy. The course provides participants with an introduction to the concepts of...
Introducing Cognitive Diversity to Purdue Students
Purdue students have a difficult time with team assignments. Too often, unproductive members of the team drag down productivity and increase the frustration of other members. Until now, Purdue faculty...
Connecting with North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
We've spent time at at North Carolina State with Rich Linton, the dean of their College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. We began to explore how our work in agile...
Louisiana Child and Maternal Health
On July 9, the Lab spent a day in Alexandria, Louisiana tackling the difficult challenges of child and maternal health. This workshop highlights a growing area of interest among public...
Partnering with Colorado State and Colorado Workforce
Through our partnership with Colorado State University, we are introducing Strategic Doing to the Colorado workforce system. In a one-day training held in Denver, we provided an introduction to Strategic...
Continuing our Partnership with New Jersey Innovation Institute
We finished up our time in New Jersey this week guiding a strategy workshop with administrators from a large health system. As you might imagine, they face lots of strategic...
New Mexico Sate’s Arrowhead Center: Integrating I-Corps with Strategic Doing
The National Science Foundation administers a highly successful program to accelerate commercialization of university research. Called Innovation Corps or I-Corps, the initiative builds a capability on university campuses to move...
Our On-line Course Includes Participants from 35 Countries
How cool is this? Registration opened just a few days ago for this free, online "Introduction to Strategic Doing" course that begins July 16. and we just hit a milestone....
