Recent Blog Posts
Research: How Change Happens in Engineering Education
Engineering departments are complex systems. To transform them, we need teams. The most productive of these teams follow a discipline to design and guide their conversations. These conversations lead to...
Training Purdue Pharmacists
This week, we worked with 150 Purdue Pharmacy students. We used Strategic Doing to help them learn the deep skills of collaboration. Increasingly pharmacists are called upon to help address complex community...
Rebuilding Our Distressed Communities: Lessons From Flint
We have been working with our colleagues at Michigan State University to adapt our agile strategy training to the specific circumstances of distressed communities. These disinvested neighborhoods present particular challenges....
Ohio State Links to the Lab
Purdue and Ohio State are collaborating to bring agile strategy to the networks that Ohio State is building through its engagement mission. In January, we traveled to Columbus to present...
Lab Enters I-Corps
The Lab has entered the I-Corps program to explore the development of an interactive platform that would help companies in the food industry accelerate innovation. The idea for this spin...
Lab goes to Iowa City
The Lab headed to Iowa City to train 22 civic leaders in the new disciplines of agile strategy. The diverse group included the president of the Community Bank, two county...
Research Update: Mental Contrasting
In Strategic Doing, moving from “What could we do?” to “What should we do” involves evaluating a number of potential strategic opportunities using our “Big Easy” criteria. The Big Easy...
Addressing the Needs of Indiana’s Critical Access Hospitals
The Lab is collaborating with Purdue Healthcare Advisors to accelerate collaboration within Indiana's critical access hospitals. This designation, established by Congress in the late 1990s, responds to the widespread pattern...
Agile Strategy at Birck Nanotechnology Center
Yesterday, we worked with the scientists at Purdue's Birck Nanotechnology Center to design a strategy. We started with assets, of course. To make the process easier, we divided our group...
Practitioner Guide to Innovating Networks, Clusters and Ecosystems
Based on the continuing work we are doing in developing entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystems, the Lab has compiled a guidebook for practitioners. The publication provides practionters with insghts into the...
Strategic Diversity Assessments for Students in the School of Engineering Technology
Collaboration involves a complex basket of skills. No individual is equally proficient in all of them. Indeed, we migrate toward our comfort zone. The challenge, of course, involves understanding how ...
Our Continuing Work with the Kauffman Foundation
The Kauffman Foundation's entrepreneurship initiatives are undergoing transformation. Under the leadership of Victor Hwang, Kauffman has assembled an impressive team of young professionals with ambitious plans to support the replication...
