Networks
Loose Hierarchies
MIT professor Thomas Malone wrote an important book, The Future of Work, nearly two decades ago. In it, he introduced “loose hierarchies,” a valuable concept lost mainly to practice. It’s time to resurrect it.
Read MoreTeaching Strategic Doing Skills in Higher Education
Recently, the Agile Strategy Lab worked with college faculty to develop courses that teach collaboration, teamwork, and networking.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreStrategic 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.
Read MoreCelebrate 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.
Read MoreScaling 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 technology officer for a start-up Internet company, my client.
Read MoreWhat’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 is completely changing the way in which our economy operates.
Read MoreCreating a Safe Place
Strategic conversations answer the two key questions of strategy. Where are we going? How will we get there? These conversations require a psychologically safe space.
Read MoreStrategic Doing Under the Hood
This graphic takes you under the hood of how an agile strategy process works within open networks, teams, and collaborations, including the development of ecosystems. Here are the key points:
Read MoreInsights from Ecuador: Moving to Network Thinking
Networks — collaborations, open innovation, clusters, ecosystems — drive an economy forward. Yet, many of today’s leaders are lagging behind. It’s understandable. They developed their skills in an Industrial Age,…
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