Strategic Diversity
Introducing Cognitive Diversity to Purdue Students
Purdue students have a difficult time with team assignments. Too often, unproductive members of the team drag down productivity and increase the frustration of other members. Until now, Purdue faculty have not had a systematic approach to providing students with the skills to manage complex collaborations. The AEM-Cube(TM) – developed by our European colleagues at Human…
Read MoreDiversity Drives Innovation – But Not the Kind You Think.
We’re finding more and more value in the concept of “strategic diversity” – that is, the way in which team members’ cognitive preferences shape their roles on the team. Learning how to optimize that diversity can take your team from average to a true “innovating network” that can solve the toughest challenges. The AEM-Cube(TM) –…
Read MoreMBA Course in Agile Strategy and Collaborative Leadership
The Lab has launched its new course in Krannert on agile strategy and collaborative leadership. The course takes students through the key elements of how to lead an agile strategy process, when an organization faces an adaptive challenge. Unlike technical problems that can be dealt with through a linear logic process, adaptive challenges are far…
Read MoreVisualizing Cognitive Diversity in Teams & Organizations
The last few days we’ve been working closely with our colleagues at Human Insight Ltd to measure and visualize “strategic diversity,” or cognitive diversity in the context of strategic transformation. Complex technical and social challenges demand cognitively diverse teams to design effective strategies and solutions. Together with Human Insight, we can measure strategic diversity at the…
Read MoreStrategic Diversity Assessments for Students in the School of Engineering Technology
Collaboration involves a complex basket of skills. No individual is equally proficient in all of them. Indeed, we migrate toward our comfort zone. The challenge, of course, involves understanding how we can measure and communicate the strategic diversity within a team. To help us solve this challenge, we reached out to Human Insight, a company…
Read MoreStrategic Diversity gives practitioners a new tool to maximize impact
We’re rolling out a new tool: Strategic Diversity. Strategic Diversity builds on the idea of the S-Curve. As we discuss in our workshops, an S-Curve is a useful model for thinking about change. One example we frequently use is “your grandparents’ economy” (eg, the heydey of heavy industry) vs. “our grandchildren’s economy” (eg, digital and…
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