Agile
Designing an Agile Strategy Game for KSU-Olathe
The Kansas State University Olathe campus presents an opportunity to design the future of the land-grant university within a metropolitan campus. To address these challenges, our colleagues at Kansas State engaged the Agile Strategy Lab to introduce Strategic Doing to faculty and staff from the Olathe campus. In order to make this introduction, we designed…
Read MoreNew 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 with Wiley Educational Services to produce an online graduate level course in agile strategy and collaborative leadership. This course will be launched in October as…
Read MoreNew 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 training we partnered with the University of North Alabama. UNA is a leading partner for Purdue in agile strategy. During the training we explored two…
Read MoreThe 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 organizations operate has become far more complex, fluid and unstable. For the organization, this more volatile environment translates into a need to respond more quickly…
Read MoreFraunhofer 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 to integrate their work in technology and innovation management. For the past two years, we have been piloting this work in New Jersey with the…
Read MoreUpdate: Agile Strategy and Collaborative Leadership
We have been busy preparing designing new courses for agile strategy and collaborative leadership. We’ve been working on three. Executive Education in Strategic Doing.– We have a new executive education course design for practitioners. The curriculum is focused on teaching the 10 rules of complex collaboration. Online Masters in Engineering Technology.– We are launching a new course…
Read MoreWhat 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 strategic transformation – accelerating growth or innovation, launching new products, introducing new technologies, forming new partnerships, moving to what’s next — requires a team of…
Read MoreDesigning 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 in the midst of this complexity? In a seminal Harvard Business Review article some years ago, Kathleen Eisenhardt and Donald Sull provided the answer: follow simple…
Read MoreAgile Innovation: Designing & Guiding Innovation Ecosystems | Charleston, South Carolina | February 22-25, 2017
Innovation Ecosystems don’t just emerge by chance. They can, however, be designed and guided. This immersive workshop will show you how…in a place where it has happened. Starting with not much more than a logo, Ernest Andrade founded the Charleston Digital Corridor by surfacing a handful of innovation assets and then linking, leveraging, and aligning them to point toward…
Read MoreEconomic Development’s Next Big Opportunity: Horizontal Innovation
The next big transformation in economic development is coming. It’s about time. Remarkably, most economic development organizations are still playing a game invented in Mississippi in the 1930s. It goes something like this. Make a quick assessment of your economy to figure out your community’s Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities and Threats, the SWOT analysis. (Hint: Hire…
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