Case Studies
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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreLab expands partnership with Rowan Cabarrus Community College (NC)
It’s all about networks. A year ago, we conducted a Strategic Doing training at Rowan Cabarrus Community College (RCCC), north of Charlotte. We conducted the training at the invitation of…
Read MoreTransforming Mechanical Engineering: What We Are Learning
In August 2016, during a faculty retreat for the School of Mechanical Engineering, we launched teams to begin the transformation of the School. (We are working under an NSF grant.…
Read MoreAgile Strategy in Health Care: Sharon Murphy Enright
Healthcare is a complex area that is ripe for improved collaboration. By deepening the skills of collaboration within and among health care professionals, the productivity of our healthcare investments can…
Read More200 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…
Read Morere|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…
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…
Read MoreWorkshop with NASA Space Biology
For the past month, the Lab has been working with NASA’s Space Biology program, a unit that is spread across three centers — Ames, Johnson and Kennedy — and NASA…
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…
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