Strategic Doing: An Introduction

Ed Morrison Purdue Center for Regional Development !January, 2014

THE STARTING POINTTHE CHALLENGES WE FACE

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COMPLEX MESSES OVERWHELM US

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LIVING WITH COMPLEXITY: WHAT TO DO?

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THE ANSWER: FOLLOW SIMPLE RULESSIMPLE RULES MANAGE COMPLEXITY

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IT ALL STARTS HERE

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EXPANDING COLLABORATION DEPENDS ON FOCUSED CONVERSATION

STRATEGIC DOINGAN OVERVIEW

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Unlike strategic planing, which is linear, slow and costly, Strategic Doing is fast, iterative and lean.

Strategic Doing answers the two key questions of strategy by breaking these two questions into four…

Strategic Doing is an agile, iterative process that relies on accumulating learning by doing…

Strategic Doing designs a managed network to keep track of metrics and make adjustments when the situation changes…

CHARTING A NEW PATHPURDUE STRATEGIC DOING WORKSHOPS, 2008-2014

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STRATEGIC DOING IS ACHIEVING SCALE

CHARTING A NEW PATHAN EMERGING UNIVERSITY NETWORK TO SUPPORT THE DISCIPLINE

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STRATEGIC DOING NETWORK

THANK YOUEd Morrison edmorrison@purdue.edu