Recent Blog Posts
Take a New Approach to Strategy
Strategy in turbulent environments is different from conventional strategic planning. Traditional approaches are too expensive to formulate, too challenging to implement, and too brittle for a rapidly shifting environment. WHY...
Adapting through Knowledge & Learning
Let's start here: Knowledge and learning are critical to adaptation. Both guide our actions as we respond to our environment. By learning by doing, we generate new knowledge. With a...
Visual & Verbal Strategy Practice
Strategy practice now requires both verbal and visual language. Both must be clear and simple. But here's the rub. Finding the simplicity on the other side of complexity is not...
The Ingenuity Gap
Our ingenuity gap continues to grow. Our inability to design and guide "innovating networks" has led to the gap. But here's the good news. We can close the gap if...
Strategic Doing and Positive Deviance
In a turbulent world, strategy becomes everyone's business. Effective strategy requires us to link, leverage, and align resources to achieve shared outcomes. Collaboration can create new solutions to wicked problems. But...
Celebrate the Small Wins
In our work, we emphasize the importance of small wins when generating solutions for big, complex problems. The reason: that's how you develop and leverage the power of networks. WHY...
Entrepreneurial ecosystem building in high gear in Indy
Entrepreneurial ecosystem building is key to community and national vitality. While our economy continues to experience post-pandemic bumps, this theme has been a constant in many of the conversations we...
Collaboration: A Process of Recombinant Innovation
Collaboration. It's the least understood term in the management lexicon. So let's start there. COLLABORATION: A PROCESS OF RECOMBINANT INNOVATION If you scour the management literature for a clear understanding...
Redefining Work: Three Forces That are Reshaping Jobs
THREE FORCES THAT ARE RESHAPING JOBS Rotman Management Magazine1 May 2018By John Hagel, Jeff Schwartz and Josh Bersin Three forces of change are leading to a profound shift in the...
Scaling the Application of Strategic Doing into Ecosystem Building
In 1992, a physicist in Singapore opened my eyes to the power of networks. A Ph.D. from MIT, he had recently left one of our federal labs. He was chief...
Rebuilding Economies of Poor Neighborhoods
Spent time yesterday with Darryl Graves, and a team from Ohio's Office of Re-entry in the Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections. We can do so much better to build positive community networks...
What’s So New about the New Economy?
When Netscape launched in the early 1990s, we started moving into the economy driven by open innovation, knowledge, and networks. The Internet is our first interactive mass medium, and it...
