Strategic Doing
Teaching 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 MoreAdaptive Challenges
Yesterday, a colleague asked why we don’t use the term “goals” with Strategic Doing. Instead, we focus on outcomes that we can measure. What’s the difference? The drawing below explains.
Read MoreHow to Become Better at Implementation
The US is good at invention but not very good at implementation. We have generated a boatload of Nobel prizes but stumble at the broader challenges of technology adoption and deployment.
Read MoreTake a New Approach to Strategy
Strategy in turbulent environments is different from conventional strategic planning. Traditional approaches are too expensive to formulate, too challenging to implement, and too brittle for a rapidly shifting environment.
Read MoreAdapting through Knowledge & Learning
Knowledge and learning are critical to adaptation. Both guide our actions as we respond to our environment.
Read MoreVisual & Verbal Strategy Practice
Strategy practice now requires both verbal and visual language. Both must be clear and simple. But here’s the rub. Finding the simplicity on the other side of complexity is not easy.
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 MoreEntrepreneurial ecosystem building in high gear in Indy
Entrepreneurial ecosystem building is key to community and national vitality. While our economy continues to experience post-pandemic bumps, this theme has been a constant in many of the conversations we…
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.
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