Collaboration
How the Agile Strategy Lab is Shaping the Future of Institutional Strategy
At the 2024 SCUP Annual Conference, higher education leaders were introduced to a dynamic and collaborative approach to strategic planning known as Strategic Doing. This agile methodology, championed by the…
Read MoreCalling Captain Obvious?
Here’s a question for which we don’t need to be calling Captain Obvious – if you wanted to get advice on how teams work, who would you ask? More specifically,…
Read MoreWhat Does It Mean to Truly Collaborate?
True collaboration goes beyond simple teamwork; it’s about co-creating something entirely new using the assets at hand. But what does that look like in practice? How can you develop leadership…
Read MorePlugging the “ingenuity gap”
A few years ago, there was a growing buzz about the “ingenuity gap.” The question posed by author Thomas Homer-Dixon was whether the world’s problems have outstripped our ability as…
Read MoreCollaborate to Innovate: Mastering Process Collaboration in the Agile Era
Understanding Process Collaboration Establishing a practice of Process Collaboration is a growing method for how work needs to be accomplished when a cross-functional team or a work area with multiple…
Read MoreWhat’s Your Lego?
Modularity enables small things to grow into large things. Solar cells become solar arrays that become solar power stations. Modularity also makes sense to understand living systems. It’s a central…
Read MoreCollaboration: An Infinite Game
A deep transformation is taking place across every organization, every region, every economy. It’s a shift from closed, linear hierarchical thinking to more open, adaptive network thinking. But there’s a…
Read MoreA Brief Overview of Strategic Doing
Strategic Doing – a peer-reviewed, scientifically grounded practice — teaches the discipline of collaboration and strategy in open networks. The practice works well to develop collaborations across siloed organizations, multi-disciplinary…
Read MoreJumping Curves
In our Strategic Doing trainings and in the book, one of the core concepts is the idea of “jumping curves.” Individual organisms, technologies, and economies all obey the principle of the S-Curve
Read MoreEmpowering Effective Leadership Through Strategic Doing
Caitlin Burns, the President of the Shoals Chamber of Commerce, attended the Strategic Doing Practitioner Training when she first took on the role as Chamber President. In this new role, she was presented with new challenges leading a team with their own responsibilities.
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