Expanding our footprint with Mississippi State
Two years ago, we began working with the University of North Alabama to bring our agile strategy disciplines to their university. We conducted a regional workshop in which Craig James, a workforce development professional from Northeast Mississippi Community College attended. After experiencing excitement in the workshop, Criag contacted Joe Fratesi at the Stennis Institute at Mississippi State University.
Joe and his colleague Jeremy Murdoch Have since gone on to become Strategic Doing practitioners. They have worked with the team at the University of North Alabama to spread the Strategic Doing discipline to small towns across Mississippi.
In order to introduce the new discipline, Joe and his colleagues developed a new version of Strategic Doing: The Game designed specifically for the challenges of small towns in Mississippi. We look forward to continue working with Mississippi State as we build out our network. We have connected the team at Mississippi State with our colleagues at the University of Oregon, since both team are working on the challenges of developing statregies for small towns.
“In my job at Northeast MS Community College, we are focused on workforce training and economic development across our district (and North Mississippi). So…I thought it a good idea for our division team to go through this process to achieve the best use of resources at our disposal.”
Craig James, Northeast Mississippi Community College
Now, Craig at Northeast Mississippi Community College is taking his team through the training offered by the University of North Alabama.
Five years ago, working with Vic Lechtenberg and Same Cordes, we developed a model for scaling Strategic Doing. The good news: our approach is working.
The Founder of the Lab at UNA and co-author of Strategic Doing: 10 Skills for Agile Leadership, Ed’s work has focused on developing new models of strategy specifically designed to accelerate complex collaboration in networks and open innovation. He is the original developer of Strategic Doing.