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Strap on your goggles...it's a new world
We're conducting Strategic Doing session at Workforce Innovations...Here are the slides.
Strategic Doing is a new discipline for developing a strategy in open networks. This web site introduces you to some of the key concepts.
We are facing some daunting competitive challenges. The need for strategic thinking has never been more important. Yet, our practices for working strategically are built around strategic planning models invented thirty and forty years ago.
In today's world, prosperity depends on networks. Successful business models increasingly rely on networks. Innovation happens in open networks. But how do we develop and implement a strategy in an open network?
We have some complex tasks ahead of us: Boosting affordable and accessible postsecondary education. Reducing drop-outs. Spurring start-up companies. Increasing university and industry research. Accelerating innovation in new products and markets. Adapting everything to a 24/7 interactive, open and transparent world, delivered by the Internet.
Meeting these challenges is what strategic doing is all about.
Bernard Reynolds said 7/22/08
Ed, your session in New Orleans - last day, last hour - absolutely made my whole trip worth the time and effort. I've particiapted in and led many strategic planning sessions. While I believe planning, defining goals and crafting strategies are critical, I am equally sure the traditional SP model used for those sessions did not achieve lasting or even effective results. "Strategic doing" shook me out of my funk on this subject. It puts the focus on the concrete, the doing - which afterall is the ultimate purpose of SP. Thank you.
Bernard Reynolds, Maryland GWIB