Recent Blog Posts

Forming a partnership with UNC Chapel Hill School of Government
In late May, Janet Holston, head of strategic initiatives for the School of Government at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, organized over 40 faculty and staff for a day long...

Helping the Kauffman Foundation move entrepreneurial research
We've been working with the Kauffman Foundation, as they begin moving their investments in entrepreneurship research to the next level. Specifically, the foundation is looking to: Strengthen translational research in...

Teaching high school students the deep skills of collaboration
Over the last few week’s we’ve worked with two high schools: Applied Technical High School in, Bergen County, NJ and the Purdue Polytechnic High School in Indianapolis. In both cases, faculty...

Lab conducts an agile strategy workshop at the Deshpande Symposium
The Lab conducted an introduction to Strategic Doing workshop at the 6th Annual Deshpande Symposium for Innovation & Entrepreneurship in Higher Education held June 12-14, 2017 in Lowell, Massachusetts. Here's a summary...

The core team in Flint continues to rebuild neighborhoods using Strategic Doing
Several years ago, a colleague at Michigan State University, Bob Brown, asked us to question: could Strategic at doing help us reduce the teenage homicide rate in Flint? Since that...

Redefining Community Development in the Age of Networks
The traditional approach to developing prosperous communities assumes that communities are mechanical systems. When they fail, when there is a breakdown, we must have a problem that needs to be...

The regeneration of Kokomo began with Strategic Doing
Recently, the Christian Science Monitor carried a story about Kokomo's rebirth. the article explores how citizens in Kokomo are bringing back the city through collaboration. “We are the poster child...

Strategy as Algorithm
Perhaps you’ve seen the video of Boston Dynamics’ robot Atlas exiting their building for a walk in a snow-covered forest, “going to work” stacking boxes in a warehouse, getting up after being toppled...

Managing Agile Innovation and Collaboration in Complex Environments
We are always on the lookout for new collaboration platforms that could integrate the knowledge and workflows of agile strategy. Over a year ago, we found one with a Scottish...