Archive for May 2017
Strategy as Algorithm
Perhaps you’ve seen the video of Boston Dynamics’ robot Atlas exiting their building for a walk in a snow-covered forest, “going to work” stacking boxes in a warehouse, getting up after being toppled…
Read MoreMeeting Grand Challenges at Indiana University
Some time ago, the Agile Lab got a call from our colleagues at Indiana University. They wanted us to help form faculty teams to submit proposals to the IU Grand…
Read MoreManaging Agile Innovation and Collaboration in Complex Environments
We are always on the lookout for new collaboration platforms that could integrate the knowledge and workflows of agile strategy. Over a year ago, we found one with a Scottish…
Read MoreConnecting to the Whistler Center for Carbohydrate Research
The Whistler Center for Carbohydrate Research has become one of the centers on campus that has embraced agile strategy has a way to build faculty industry collaborations more quickly. This…
Read MoreExpanding Our Engagement with NASA
We are now designing our third 2-day workshop for NASA. We started with Space Biology. Next, we focused on building collaborations between Space Biology and the Human Research Program. Now…
Read MoreDesigning a New Major in Energy Systems Technology
Can you design a new major simply by recombining existing courses? Can we link and leverage our existing courses in new ways? Yes. If you think differently. Sometimes the pathway…
Read MoreUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: School of Government
On May 22, we will be conducting an all-day workshop to introduce agile strategy and Strategic Doing to the School of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel…
Read MoreUpdate: Agile Strategy and Collaborative Leadership
We have been busy preparing designing new courses for agile strategy and collaborative leadership. We’ve been working on three. Executive Education in Strategic Doing.– We have a new executive education…
Read MoreTransforming Mechanical Engineering: What We Are Learning
In August 2016, during a faculty retreat for the School of Mechanical Engineering, we launched teams to begin the transformation of the School. (We are working under an NSF grant.…
Read MoreThe Opioid Crisis in Indiana: Strategy as a Wicked Problem
We are working with Purdue Health Advisors and the Purdue Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering on a tough topic. How should the State of Indiana respond to the growing opioid…
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