Strategic Doing: Accelerating Innovation in Workforce Development

Ed Morrison Purdue Center for Regional Development !NAGLO Meeting | Austin, TX | July, 2014

Strategic Doing Credo!!

We believe we have a responsibility to build a prosperous, sustainable future for ourselves and future generations.No individual, organization or place can build that future alone.Open, honest, focused and caring collaboration among diverse participants is the path to accomplishing clear, valuable, shared outcomes.We believe in doing, not just talking – and in behavior in alignment with our beliefs.

Strategic Doing Design Team Turkey Run State Park

October, 2011

THE STARTING POINTTHE CHALLENGES WE FACE

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We start with a naive view of talent development…

K through 12

4 Years of

CollegeCareer

Reality looks more like this…

K through 12

Dependency Cycle

Career

Entry level

Working poor

$10.00per hour

2 Years of College

Certifications

4 Years of College

Lost job

Pre-K

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High  Schools Employers

Category  “A”

Category  “B”

Category  “C”

Category  “D”

Employee Supply Employer Demand

At  Risk  and  Dependent  Population

The  Unemployed

Working  Poor

Cluster  Training  Programs

Customized  Training  Programs

Program  of  Study  Education  Programs

Program  of  Study  

4 Patterns for Post-Secondary Career and Technical Education

We need a new visual language…

Technical Skills

New Basic Skills

Life Skills

We need a new visual language…

Pre-K-12

Community College | Career and Technical Education | Apprenticeships

Four Year College or University

Supply Side Demand Side

Education System Employers

1 2 3 4 5

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Drop-outsUnder-skilled Unemployed

Prison Prison System

Ex-offenders

We need a new visual language…

Using knowledge, skills and abilities levels to chart career pathways

10Where do we do start?

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What happens when this goes away?

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Oklahoma City 1993

Oklahoma City Today

Photo by: Luke Barrett

What are the lessons of

Oklahoma City ?

Muhlenberg

CaldwellHart Metcalfe Adair

Green

Spencer Owen Scott

OhioEdmonson

Rockcastle

Knox

Morgan

Pike

GreenupEstill

Lewis

Fayette

Union

Mercer

McCracken

Hopkins

And here…Globalization hits Kentucky

Thinking Differently Behaving Differently Doing Differently

Thinking Differently Behaving Differently Doing Differently

Time-out for an economics lesson…

In a democracy, these two things are supposed to work together

It’s about 3 flows of money

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We’re moving from our Grandparents’ economy to our Grandchildren’s economy…

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We’ll need to move from hierarchical thinking to network mindsets…

From this…. …to this

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Our challenge: “Link and leverage” assets to create new opportunities

Step 1: Stop thinking like our pets….

Thinking Differently Behaving Differently Doing Differently

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Had enough?

A key lesson from our Founders: Civility powers innovation

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We build trust by doing, not just talking…

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What happens when this goes away?

And this stuff doesn’t cut it..

Thinking Differently Behaving Differently Doing Differently

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Our future is not linear (or predictable)

Our old systems no longer work

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Complex workforce messes overcome us

How can we make our way?

The answer: Follow simple rules

Strategy answers 2 questions

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Strategic Doing: Simple, but not easy…

Strategic Planning Strategic Doing

From slow, linear…

…to fast, agile

Alignments emerge…

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Funds

Fluid Transport/ Civil & Ind. Engr.

Detection

Materials

Bioscience

Pumps/ Valves/ Components

Analysis/ Measuring/

Control

Water User

Consumer Products

Treatment/ Processing/ Softening

Utilities

Funding Agencies

Academic Institutions

Private SectorPublic Sector

Milwaukee Water Cluster

DOE

EPA

NSF

USDA

DoD

NOAA/DOC

Interior

World Bank

Foundations

International Partners

NIH

Greater Milwaukee Foundation

UWM

Marquette

UW-Madison

WATER Inst.Chem & Biosci

School of Freshwater Science

CEAS

Physics

MSOE

Fluid Power

Rapid Proto Center

M7/GMCMMSD

City of Milwaukee

DNRUNDP

Federal Government

Municipalities

Water Council

Pentair• Filtering & purification

GE

Badger Meter• Water meters • Meter reading systems

Procorp• Water reuse & softening • Phosphate & radium removal

AO Smith• Water heaters

Kohler• Faucets • Materials, coatings, plating • Casting technology

Miller Coors• Intake quality, output quality • Energy consumption

AquaSensorsThermo Fisher

Scientific

Fall River

Great Lakes Water• Water treatment equipment

Advanced Chemical Systems

• Ind. wastewater treatment

CH2MHILL• Engineering services

ITT

Sanitarie• Wastewater treatment design

Flygt• pumps

SiemensJoyBucyrus

Veolia• Water utilities

Environmental

Energy Efficiency

Processing & Treatment

Monitoring & Detection

A swarm forms…

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Managing an open network…

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4 Focus Areas 60+

Collaborative Initiatives

80%Continued pastinitial funding

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6,500

13,000

19,500

26,000

Started Training Completed Training

16,355

25,351

6,1178,768

Goal Actual

2.7X

2.9X

Drives dramatic improvements…

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0

1,000

2,000

3,000

4,000

Degree/Certificate Placed in Employment

3,631

1,860

2,510

690

Goal Actual

1.4X

2.7X

Throughout the system…

The secret sauce?

Our Opportunity Fund…

CHARTING A NEW PATH

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ARE YOU WILLING TO…

Think differently? Behave differently?

Do differently?

THANK YOUEd Morrison edmorrison@purdue.edu