Recent Blog Posts
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...
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...