Recent Blog Posts
The Lab Provides Support to Purdue CareerMaker
Purdue CareerMaker is an exciting new initiative to develop innovative solutions to the growing workforce challenges faced by employers in Indiana. With multiple sites throughout Indiana, Purdue will be engaging...
Developing Visual Literacy: Understanding the Skills Gap
At the Agile Lab, we use visualizations to capture insights about systems. Increasingly, we recognize challenges we face are related to complex systems that we cannot see. So, we turn...
New Jersey: Our Fraunhofer Testbed
In 2013, we went to Stuttgart, Germany to explore a simple question: Could we organize the innovation ecosystem of a U.S. by following Fraunhofer principles? Could we borrow and apply...
Ohio State Community Engagement Conference
At the invitation of Stephen Myers, Associate Vice Provost for Outreach and Engagement at The Ohio State University, we will be sharing our work in agile strategy -- Strategic Doing...
Update on Our Work in Puerto Rico
We have been partnering with the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, a land-grant institution interested in our work in agile strategy. Given the challenges they face, the Lab is organizing...
Agile Lab Europe Update
Here's an update on our development of Strategic Doing Europe. We are planning our next 2.5 day training in The Hague in April 2018 Our colleagues from Human Insight will...
Strategic Diversity gives practitioners a new tool to maximize the impact
We're rolling out a new tool: Strategic Diversity. Strategic Diversity builds on the idea of the S-Curve. As we discuss in our workshops, an S-Curve is a useful model for...
Start-up and Innovation Ecosystems: The Value of Testbeds
Unsurprisingly, academic research often lags behind market developments (Brown & Mawson, 2017). What if, to help us close this gap, we thought of practitioners and policymakers as researchers? What if...
Strategic Innovation in Food Technology
Agile approaches to strategy and innovation in technology-rich environment is a relatively new field. The availability of strategic innovation tools and techniques, specifically designed for food technology, is significantly lacking....
Accelerating Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystems in Lafayette and West Lafayette
MatchBOX Coworking Studio and the Purdue Agile Strategy Lab have entered into a new partnership, further deepening the relationship between MatchBOX and Purdue University. The focus of the new partnership is...
Beta Test of CommPlexity Shows Promising Results
Last week we rolled out a beta test of our new CommPlexity workshop and the data we collected has us very excited. CommPlexity helps people better communicate complex challenges and...
CommPlexity Comes Out of the Garage
Last week we beta tested a one-hour CommPlexity workshop with 30 PhD students. Participants were asked to come prepared to talk about their research for 30-60 seconds. We then worked...
