Partners
Connecting with North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
We’ve spent time at at North Carolina State with Rich Linton, the dean of their College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. We began to explore how our work in agile strategy and cognitive diversity in teams could assist the College of Agriculture with two important initiatives that they are undertaking. The first involves North Carolina…
Read MorePartnering with Colorado State and Colorado Workforce
Through our partnership with Colorado State University, we are introducing Strategic Doing to the Colorado workforce system. In a one-day training held in Denver, we provided an introduction to Strategic Doing to 24 professionals drawn from across the state. These professionals are learning to become guides in this agile strategy process. Strategic Doing it involves…
Read MoreContinuing our Partnership with New Jersey Innovation Institute
We finished up our time in New Jersey this week guiding a strategy workshop with administrators from a large health system. As you might imagine, they face lots of strategic issues. Yesterday, we help them tackle some operational concerns related to engineering systems – HVAC, telecommunication, maintenance, etc. In just three hours we came up…
Read MoreConnecting to East Stroudsburg University
East Stroudsburg University anchors the economy in the Poconos. Mary Francis Postupack, Vice President of Economic Development and Entrepreneurship recently contacted the Lab with a problem. Each year, the university holds an economic development conference for the regional economy. Here’s the problem: According to Mary Francis, participants are simply tired of the talking heads. How…
Read MoreTeaching the Deep Skills of Collaboration in Middle School
In a few weeks, we will be beta testing an exciting new version of Strategic Doing: The Game. It is designed in partnership with young adult novelist Noah Knox Marshall. Ubuntu will teach middle-school students the deep skills of collaboration in the context of STEM. You can learn more about the adventures of Dax Zander from…
Read MoreStrategic Doing and I-Corps at New Mexico State
Arrowhead Center—the economic development and technology commercialization arm of New Mexico State University—has implemented Strategic Doing to support its I-Corps teams. From New Mexico State, Lauren Goldstein will be making a presentation on their progress at the Deshpande Symposium for Innovation & Entrepreneurship in Higher Education. Based on her experience with the NMSU I-Corps site, Lauren…
Read MoreAgile Strategy Moves into Main Street
The Lab is building an international network of practitioners skilled in the disciplines of agile strategy and collaborative leadership. Built on the frameworks of Strategic Doing, this network is expanding into new areas such as health care, community development, and ecosystem development for innovation and entrepreneurship. One member of this international network, Darrin Wasniewski, introduced…
Read MoreBuilding an Agri-Food Ecosystem in the Netherlands
The Lab is heading back to The Netherlands. We are working with our Dutch partner, Human Insight, on a workshop to develop an innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem in agribusiness and food in The Netherlands. We are working with the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality and the food accelerator, FoodStars, to organize this workshop. …
Read MoreCleaning Up the North Carolina Coast with Strategic Doing
After the Lab leads a training in Strategic Doing, we encourage participants to put the skills to work immediately. Here’s a good example. Gloria Putnam, with North Carolina Sea Grant, North Carolina State University, attended a workshop we conducted in Delaware With Sea Grant universities in the fall of 2017. This spring, she worked with her…
Read MoreHugs for Unity in Flint: Our Partnership with Michigan State
For over five years, the Agile Lab team has been donating its time to help civic leaders in Flint, Michigan. Our starting challenge: How could we reduce teenage homicide rates. Below, you can see a video we completed several years ago with the core team that initially came to us for help. Now, the most trained…
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