Strategic Diversity gives practitioners a new tool to maximize the 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 whatever is next that we can’t see yet). Economies start somewhat slowly as a new technology is introduced, as in the Industrial Revolution, then grow rapidly (for example, the post-WWII boom). At some point, the technology and the economy are superseded by something new. We are currently in the midst of the transition to the new economy – we are between S-Curves. Our challenge in navigating this transition is to capitalize on the assets that we’ve accumulated in the old economy, and figure out how to migrate them (often in ways that we wouldn’t expect) to create new value in the emerging economy.
In addition to explaining how economies rise and fall, products take hold, or biological systems operate, there’s also an S-Curve that can be used to think about which part of the strategy planning/implementation process you’re most effective in. Your contribution to agile strategy may be best in the ideation phase. Or, you may play the role of helping to scale up. Or, you may be the person that builds systems and processes. All are critical parts of effectively using an agile strategy approach.
The implication: to get maximum impact, your team needs to include people along different segments of that S-Curve.
In partnership with our colleagues at Human Insight, we’re extending an opportunity to learn about your place on that curve by completing the AEM-Cube(TM), an assessment that will tell you how you best contribute to strategy rollout. The Purdue Agile Strategy Lab is the only group in the US that offers this tool (it’s been used in Europe for some time). To help explain this new tool, if you register to take the assessment, you can attend a free webinar to learn more about what it means. We’re offering two times for the webinar: December 12 at noon, or December 13 at 4 (both EST).
Learn more – including what AEM-Cube means – and register here.
Liz shepherds the expansion of the Lab’s programming and partnerships with other universities interested in deploying agile strategy tools. A co-author of Strategic Doing: 10 Skills for Agile Leadership, she also focuses on the development and growth of innovation and STEM education ecosystems, new tool development, and teaching Strategic Doing.