Recent Blog Posts
What is Strategic Diversity Within a Team?
We start with a simple set of propositions: Designing and executing a complex strategy requires a diverse set of skills that rarely, if ever, reside in any single person. A...
200 in Kansas play Strategic Doing: The Game
We completed a leadership training this week at Kansas State University. Our Agile Strategy Lab team led about 200 participants in Strategic Doing: The Game. Participants learned to apply the deep skills...
Licensing the Agile Strategy Lab
We never thought would happen this fast. When we first develop a proposal for a Agile Strategy Lab at Purdue, we projected the, if we were successful, other universities might...
re|course: Transforming Purdue Mechanical Engineering
The Agile Strategy Lipids in the midst of forming teams of students, faculty and staff to transform the School of Mechanical Engineering. Under a National Science Foundation grant, we are...
Designing complex workshops using simple rules: NASA Life Sciences
The discipline of agile strategy is designed for open, loosely connected networks. These networks do not stand still. They are complex and shifting. How do we design and guide collaborations...
Translational research in space life sciences
We are working on an exciting and challenging assignment. How can we accelerate translational research in space life sciences? This involves designing complex collaborations between NASA's Space Biology Program and...
How regional innovation clusters form
A group of researchers at Purdue are focusing their energies on autonomous transportation. Another is looking at Indiana's role in Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things. In particular, they...
Our partnerships: New Jersey Innovation Institute and Fraunhofer
Over the past year and a half, we have been partnering with the New Jersey Innovation Institute to design and test new approaches to agile strategy and accelerated innovation. We...
Partnership with Memorial University | Newfoundland
Founded as a memorial to the Newfoundlanders who lost their lives during active service in the First and Second World Wars, Memorial University stands apart from other universities in Canada....
Communicating complexity: A new Lab offering
Next week Scott Hutcheson will be in Monterey, CA working with our partner Bob Sadler to put the final touches on our new offering - ComPlexity. Tomas Diaz de la Rubia,...
Practitioner training at Howard University
This week, we kick off our partnership with Howard University. We are conducting a 2.5 day practitioner training at the beautiful new Interdisciplinary Research Building in Washington DC. Here is...
Our collaboration with Kansas State
Kansas State was one of the first universities to bite down hard on agile strategy. Working with Jeff Tucker and Dale Wunderlich at the Advanced Manufacturing Institute, we have introduced...