Moving Toward Strategy as a Flexible Process
Strategy is dynamic. Different business units — positioned at different locations on the S-Curve — will face different strategic challenges. The implication is profound: a one-size fits all, top-down...
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Why Trump’s Talks with North Korea Failed
If you are familiar with the dynamics of collaboration, it’s easy to understand why Trump’s talks with Kim Jong-un failed. Successful, enduring collaborations emerge from conversations with an...
View ArticleTeaching Strategy Skills With Simulation Games
At our Lab at Purdue, we teach the multiple skills of complex collaboration with simulation games. Every organization is facing complex, wicked challenges. We are unprepared. Traditional management...
View ArticleBy Embracing Complexity We Find Simplicity
We’ve grown up with a mechanical worldview that is now getting in the way of our ability to adapt and survive. With this mechanical mindset, we think of the world as a machine. We can analyze facts and...
View ArticleThe Story of Strategic Doing in Flint, Michigan
Flint, Michigan continues to struggle through a challenging transformation. For the past seven years, we have been working in Flint, supporting a remarkable core team. Recently, we learned that Bob...
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Strategic Doing: Handling Dancing Landscapes
Over on our massively open online course (MOOC) introducing Strategic Doing, a student pointed to the work of Herbert Simon an economist and political scientist. I responded: “There is a lot of...
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Strategic Doing and Dancing Landscapes
Over on our massively open online course (MOOC) introducing Strategic Doing, a student pointed to the work of Herbert Simon an economist and political scientist. I responded: “There is a lot of...
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Confusing Technical and Adaptive Challenges
Companies get into trouble when their managers confuse technical and adaptive challenges. A technical challenge has a right answer. It involves linear thinking, root cause analysis, and...
View ArticleDiversity Drives Innovation: Here’s How
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...
View ArticleTo move quickly, go slowly (at first)
I (re)learned a valuable lesson this week. We design and guide new networks to move quickly, to be come more agile. The paradox, however, is that you cannot rush the formation of these trusted...
View ArticleRebuilding our civic economy
Our future prosperity depends on developing new, collective habits of complex thinking together. At the Purdue Agile Strategy Lab, we have introduced the concept of a “civic economy” to explain the...
View ArticleIs Collective Impact transformative?
Ever since its debut in 2011, the concept of “Collective Impact” has offered the hope that citizens, acting together, can productively address the “wicked problems” confronting our communities. As set...
View ArticleAgile Strategy is Like Ocean Kayaking
Today, organizations of all types are facing an uncertain future. While we hope for calm times in which we can make steady progress, we know that turbulence can arise at any moment and throw us off...
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Connecting Collective Impact and Shared Value
Are the concepts of “collective impact” and “shared value” connected? If so, how? Consider first the case of collective impact. In their article in the Winter 2011 issue of Stanford Social Innovation...
View ArticleGetting on with designing “What’s Next”
Sadly, the world is never quite so simple as politicians would have us believe. Our politicians have, for some time now, been failing to address the real challenges we face. Democratic capitalism...
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It’s time for regions to start jumping the curve
Most economic development organizations rely on a standard pack of traditional economic development strategies: real estate and infrastructure development, regional marketing; business retention and...
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Networks: A promising approach to poverty
Across the country, we are dealing with the consequences of the growing disparity in income between the rich and poor. How can we use new thinking about networks and collaboration to address these...
View ArticleRebuilding our industrial commons
For over 30 years, U.S. manufacturing has been in relative decline in the face of relentless competitive pressure. Rebuilding our relative competitive position in manufacturing will not come easily....
View ArticleThoughts on the emerging practice of strategy
Strategy practices that emerged from WWII are increasingly inadequate to the task of guiding today’s organizations, communities and regions. Even when they are executed, the results from traditional...
View ArticleConducting strategy with difficult people
When we introduce ideas around agile strategy, some folks get stuck on how the jerks will react. For example last week someone asked, “What happens when you encounter loud, obstinate people? Don’t...
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