Recent Blog Posts
Purdue Healthcare Advisors and Critical Access Hospitals
Purdue Healthcare Advisors (PHA) is working with 14 Critical Access Hospitals across Indiana to introduce new "lean" processes. These very small hospitals are facing enormous challenges. Some are part of...
Purdue Agile Strategy Lab is heading to Puerto Rico
Three months after Hurricane Maria devastated the island, Puerto Rico is still reeling. Much of the island remains without electricity, reports The Washington Post, and many businesses remain closed. Hurricane...
Can Big Food Innovate Faster? We Think So
Large food companies are losing the growth race. Smaller, more agile companies are growing at a far faster rate. As a result, the largest 25 food companies are losing market...
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....
