Strategic Doing Blog
Over 15 years at Purdue, we ran #strategicdoing through some pretty wicked test beds. And, as our colleague from the Netherlands told us (after running his own experiments), “It just works.” Now Reinder Schonewille and his partners conduct #strategicdoing workshops in Dutch. Our work on wicked problems continues… Scott Hutcheson and Purdue Healthcare Advisors are […]
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Do you know the magic ingredient for healthy ecosystem development? As Strategic Doing efforts grow, they leave the realm of individual projects and the work begins to take on the shape of a ecosystem – an interconnected set of people, organizations, policies, sometimes even buildings – all aiming at a transformed organization, community or region. […]
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At last, it’s time for moving forward. 2020 is almost – mercifully – behind us. The challenges of this year will certainly not disappear at the stroke of midnight, but it does provide the opportunity to think about new directions. One of the Strategic Doing maxims is “don’t fix old systems; design what’s next.” That […]
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What is the role of “vision” in Strategic Doing? If you’ve read the book, or been to one of our trainings, you might be surprised that we’re even writing a post about this – we try to make the case that vision statements, at least, usually consume an inordinate amount of time for a group […]
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The Strategic Doing movement in Texarkana has grown steadily over the past few years, and a recent news article showed off how far it’s come. Certified Workshop Leader RuthEllen Whitt, who leads Leadership Texarkana, is the brains behind the Strategic Doing movement there. She estimates that about 100 groups in the area now use Strategic […]
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How can we be building community when we can’t stop yelling at each other? Good question. This week in the US is Thanksgiving (the Canadians are way ahead, having celebrated in October). The traditional symbols of the US holiday leave much to be desired – the elementary school pageants of our childhood notwithstanding, the Pilgrims […]
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Have you heard about our new digital credentials? Strategic Doing is a learned discipline – even those that have been at it for years (including Ed Morrison, who originally developed SD) keep finding new ways to help others participate in this new way of “doing more together.” Even so, if you’ve been to a Strategic […]
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We’ve been asked for a long time when Strategic Doing practitioner training – the 2.5 day in-person session that more than 1,300 people have completed, sometimes referred to as the “301” – would be available online. It’s fallen into the “if it ain’t broke, why fix it?” category, but of course COVID has changed all […]
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The Agile Strategy Lab at UNA is wrapping up two online courses that are the virtual version of the 2.5 day Strategic Doing practitioner training – one group is from throughout the globe, while the other group is members of a network addressing challenges in a particular community. The course has two parts – the […]
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Just because the future is uncertain is no reason to put off thinking about it – in fact, it makes it even more imperative. One of the strengths of Strategic Doing is its ability to accommodate uncertainty. Unlike strategic planning, you’re not trying to use past performance data, and you’re not making plans for the […]
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