Posts by Ed Morrison
Forming New Ecosystems
Over the past months, I’ve been coaching #strategicdoing practitioners as they design and guide the formation of new ecosystems. These ecosystems generate solutions to wicked problems. They help us close our ingenuity gap…the chasm between the problems we face and the solutions we create.
Read MoreGUIDING COMPLEX CHANGE WITH PERFORMANCE
My colleague Scott Hutcheson reminds me of our work at Purdue University. In 2005, Scott invited me to come to Purdue to work on a $15 million grant he had landed. We deployed #strategicdoing,…
Read MoreDigital Transformation
Digital transformation changes the flow of information and knowledge across an organization. Digital technologies alter the dynamics of power—the nature of leadership shifts.
Read MoreModularity
Modularity enables small things to grow into large things. Solar cells become solar arrays that become solar power stations. Modularity also makes sense to understand living systems. It’s a central concept in evolutionary biology
Read MoreSeeing the World with S Curves
My mentor David Morgenthaler, taught me the importance of seeing the world with S curves. It’s a shorthand version of seeing organizations and markets as a living system.
Read MoreThe Concept of a Business Ecosystem
A business ecosystem is a familiar idea. In his 1993 Harvard Business Review article, Predators and Prey, James Moore introduced the concept. But here we are, thirty years later, and most leaders struggle with the concept.
Read MoreOrganizations Must Adapt
It’s time to ditch our static view of the enterprise. Organizations are complex systems that must adapt to survive. But the challenge is tricky. Every organization faces a continuously dancing landscape of opportunities and risks.
Read MoreLoose Hierarchies
MIT professor Thomas Malone wrote an important book, The Future of Work, nearly two decades ago. In it, he introduced “loose hierarchies,” a valuable concept lost mainly to practice. It’s time to resurrect it.
Read MoreDeveloping Entrepreneurial & Innovation Ecosystems
Developing entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystems matters to regenerate our economies. But too few civic and political leaders know why this step is so important. What’s worse, they don’t know how to start.
Read MoreCollaboration
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 a single event.
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