Recent Blog Posts
Need to Communicate Complex Ideas? Introducing CommPlexity
Many of us work not only work with complex ideas, we need to explain them to others in clear, compelling ways. We're rolling out a new offering to help. The...
Graduate Course in Agile Strategy and Collaborative Leadership
The course brings together theories and insights from a variety of disciplines including engineering, management, psychology, and social science. Increasingly, leaders are being called upon to apply their expertise in...
Pop-Up Class: Agile Strategy in Engineering
Several undergraduate and graduate engineering students have approached the Lab about learning the disciplines of agile strategy. To address these requests we are designing a pop-up class, based on our...
Agile Strategy Lab in The Netherlands
The Lab has established a partnership in The Hague, where we do training. Our next training is scheduled for April. Meanwhile, participants in our last training are moving along the...
New Initiative: Agile Innovation
Both markets and technologies are changing rapidly. Finding new markets for existing technologies and new technologies for existing markets is often a complex challenge. Agile Innovation is the latest solution...
Connecting with Canada’s Engineering Change Lab
The Agile Lab is participating in the work of the Engineering Change Lab based in Canada. Launched in 2015, the Engineering Change Lab is focused on "unlocking the higher potential...
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...
