Where are we going: Our Outcome
We are moving toward a more open, equitable, and regenerative world. We are unleashing our human ingenuity through collaboration, entrepreneurship, challenge innovation, and ecosystems.
Our work supports a new generation of leaders. Strategic Doing practitioners are committed to the hard, heady work of transforming our world. They guide complex collaborations by mastering our oldest technology: the conversation.
We are explorers on the path to what's next: designing new organizations, policies, and systems. If our work inspires you, discover our many touchpoints, and join us.
How we will get there: our Credo
In 2011, a group of Strategic Doing practitioners from all over the United States gathered at a public park near Purdue University. They composed a credo, a set of beliefs that drive our work.
1. We believe we have a responsibility to build a prosperous, sustainable future for ourselves and future generations.
2. No individual, organization, or place can build that future alone.
3. Open, honest, focused, and caring collaboration among diverse participants is the path to accomplishing clear, valuable, shared outcomes.
4. We believe in doing, not just talking -- and in behavior in alignment with our beliefs.
Numbers don't lie
Strategic Doing teaches people how to form collaborations quickly, move them toward measurable outcomes and make adjustments along the way. In today’s world, collaboration is essential to meet the complex challenges we face.
Strategic Doing enables leaders to design and guide new networks that generate innovative solutions. It is a new strategy discipline that is lean, agile and fast—just what organizations, communities and regions need to survive and thrive.
Julio Jose Prado, Ph.D., a cluster expert came to Purdue in 2017 to learn Strategic Doing. “We know a lot about what clusters are, but Strategic Doing provides the only method for how to develop clusters,” according to Julio. .He returned to Ecuador and deployed Strategic Doing in the banking sector. When he was appointed as Minister of Production and Trade in Ecuador, he created the platform to deploy Strategic Doing across 22 clusters in Ecuador.
With its launch, Platform Calgary, supported by the provincial innovation agency Alberta Innovates, trained over 40 leaders in Strategic Doing. Calgary’s tech and innovation ecosystem is working towards the common goal of tripling the size of our city’s tech sector in the next ten years. “While Strategic Doing training is an invaluable tool for Calgary’s tech and innovation community, I see it as an important evolution for the pan-Alberta Innovation Network and a framework for the entrepreneurial system,” said Terry Rachwalski, Executive Director of Alberta Innovates.
Morrison completed a Ph.D. in economics to explain why Strategic Doing works. Based on pragmatism and action research, the dissertation explains how Strategic Doing evolved over 20 years of strategy practice in open, loosely-honed networks. The dissertation also explains how multiple streams of research across different disciplines that support the ten basic rules of the model. Download
The Kauffman Foundation provided funding for an exploratory project: Could we develop a platform for using Strategic Doing as an operating system to celebrate the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems? The research led to a design concept — Zebra — to provide a replicable, scalable, and sustainable platform.
The Voinovich Academy for Excellence in Public Service at Ohio University has begun to form a hub for teaching Strategic Doing.
The Ohio State University, led by Institute Fellow Jeff Agnoli, senior liaison in theOffice of Corporate Partnerships and Steve Gavazzi, professor in the College of Education and Human Ecology, began to establish a Strategic Doing Hub at the university.
Strategic Doing is going global. We now have interested professionals all over the world who are exploring and taking classes in this open-source discipline. To support our global growth — what we are calling Strategic Doing 2.0 — CONNECTS has partnered with the Strategic Doing Institute to form global communities of practitioners. These communities are taking on our most daunting challenges. The communities will enable practitioners to learn faster, assemble teams faster, and do more together.