Posts by Ed Morrison
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 agile strategy and why new approaches to strategy are needed. Strategy in open, loosely connected networks relies on a different dynamic than traditional strategic planning.…
Read MoreIntroducing 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 have not had a systematic approach to providing students with the skills to manage complex collaborations. The AEM-Cube(TM) – developed by our European colleagues at Human…
Read MoreConnecting 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 strategy and cognitive diversity in teams could assist the College of Agriculture with two important initiatives that they are undertaking. The first involves North Carolina…
Read MoreLouisiana 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 health workers in the agile strategy work we are developing at Purdue. Louisiana’s Bureau of Family Health is housed within the Office of Public Health’s Center…
Read MorePartnering 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 Doing to 24 professionals drawn from across the state. These professionals are learning to become guides in this agile strategy process. Strategic Doing it involves…
Read MoreContinuing 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 issues. Yesterday, we help them tackle some operational concerns related to engineering systems – HVAC, telecommunication, maintenance, etc. In just three hours we came up…
Read MoreNew 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 promising research ideas into the market. Based on a methodology called Lean Launchpad, the program guides faculty and students through an intensive process of customer…
Read MoreOur 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. Over 100 hundred people have registered. What blows us completely away is that these learners are from 35 different countries. The course introduces the core…
Read MoreThe Ohio State University And The Columbus Way
We completed our second-largest training in agile strategy at The Ohio State University. (Our largest was in Puerto Rico with the University of Puerto Rico-Mayguez). Sponsored by Ohio State University’s Office of Outreach and Engagement, our training brought together the diverse class from across the university and the community. Participants included professional engagement staff, professionals…
Read MoreUpdate: Purdue Polytechnic High School
Today we wrapped up our 8th and final Strategic Doing coaching session with the incredible faculty of the Purdue Polytechnic HS. We have been giving the faculty guidance on how to teach the deep skills of collaboration. Mistakenly, most people think of collaboration as a “thing”. It’s actually a complex process the involves ten shared skills.…
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