Recent Blog Posts

Purdue’s New Digital Science Initiative
At the request of Tomas Diaz de la Rubia, the Lab is participating in the design of town hall sessions with faculty to support a new digital science initiative. Announced...

Agile Strategy Workshop: Allegheny County Health Department (Pittsburgh)
At the Lab, we don't do much marketing. Here's why. People hear about our work from others. The curious come to 2.5 day training to get a deep dive into...

Supporting the Center for Career Opportunities
Tim Luzader, Executive Director of the Center for Career Opportunities (CCO), asked the Lab to explore how agile strategy disciplines might move the CCO to a new level of productivity and...

New Graduate Level Online Course in Agile Strategy and Collaborative Leadership
Last week, we conducted a workshop with the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII) in Chicago. We took this opportunity to video the workshop as part of our partnership...

New Partnerships Forming in Montana
Last week, at the invitation of the Montana Manufacturing Extension Center (MMEC) and this City of Bozeman, we conducted a draft day certification training in Strategic Doing. In conducting this...

The Lab Conducts Certification Training in Strategic Doing at New Mexico State University
Last week, we completed a 2 ½ day training with our colleagues at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. Our work with New Mexico State began under the National...

Partnerships with Fraunhofer IAO and New Jersey Innovation Institute
Over four years ago, we began exploring with Fraunhofer IAO how we might integrate our work in agile strategy with their work in technology and innovation management. Both of us...

Helping Kauffman Foundation Move Entrepreneurial Research to the Next Level
For the past month, we have been working closely with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to take entrepreneurial research to the next level. The Foundation, beginning with its decision to...

Designing New Solutions: Indiana’s Opioid Crisis
Indiana’s opioid crisis creates severe challenges for state and local governments. The scope of the crisis transcends the capacity of any one agency. Collaboration and experimentation are essential. With the...

Update on Strategic Doing Australia
Through our collaboration with the University of the Sunshine Coast, we developed a close relationship with Mike Heffernan and Pam Wardner. In December 2016, we launched a test initiative,...

The Growing Importance of Agile Strategy
We are seeing a growing demand for our work in agile strategy. Why is this so? We see two major forces are at work. First, the environments in which most...

Fraunhofer Workshops at the Lab: July 24-Aug 4
From July 24-August 4, our colleague Nino Ardilio from Fraunhofer IAO will be on campus conducting workshops. For the past four years, the Lab and Fraunhofer IAO have been partnering...