Strategic Doing Blog
With Strategic Doing, we teach the multiple skills of complex collaboration with simulation games. Every organization is facing complex, wicked challenges. We are unprepared. Traditional management practices do not work well. We do not yet have the skills or the light weight collaborative processes we need to do deep, shared, strategic thinking quickly. Customized strategy […]
Read MoreStrategy is dynamic. Different business units — positioned at different locations on the S-Curve — will face different strategic challenges. The implication is profound: a one-size fits all, top-down strategy process (traditional strategic planning) will not be the most productive approach to maximizing a return on assets. In too many cases, corporations are driving toward […]
Read MoreWe’ve grown up with a mechanical worldview that is now getting in the way of our ability to adapt and survive. With this mechanical mindset, we think of the world as a machine. We can analyze facts and execute plans toward a predictable future. We can measure and control outcomes. Traditional strategic planning embodies this […]
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If you’ve been to a Strategic Doing workshop, you’ve seen an hourglass on each page of the Action Pack, with the number of minutes to be spent on each page alongside it. Those time guidelines can feel quite compressed. There’s usually at least one person who leaves a comment in the evaluation that says, “Too […]
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Have you been as awe-struck at the images coming from NASA’s Mars InSight lander as we have? The NASA mission to Mars hit a major milestone this week: an unmanned spacecraft made a perfect landing 300 million miles from its starting point on planet Earth – after almost ten years of planning (the original proposals […]
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We’re excited to announce the newest Strategic Doing affiliate: Mississippi State University. The Stennis Institute hosts the Strategic Doing activity at the university. Founded in 1976, the Stennis Institute works alongside local, regional, and state leaders to help build stronger, more resilient communities and regions. The Institute’s work enhances the capacity of state and local leaders […]
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A great team in the Strategic Doing community (spearheaded by Lilly Cavanaugh, Arleen Hernández, Carr Biggerstaff, José Lugo, and Marco Lenis) has begun working on making Strategic Doing materials available for Spanish speakers. We’re looking forward to the new possibilities that will emerge because of this expanded capacity. Find the new pack in the Practitioner’s […]
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Today’s complexities demand agility and collaboration to do strategic work. Today we’re announcing our second presentation of a free online course introducing Strategic Doing. The first session enrolled more than 2,000 people from around the world (125 countries!). The 3-week course will help you sharpen your ability to think horizontally in networks and you’ll gain […]
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In designing Strategic Doing, we started with a rigorous definition of strategy. We have a strategy when we can answer two questions: Where we going? How will we get there? If a strategy cannot answer these two questions, it’s not really a strategy. So, it’s common that many strategic plans actually failed the test. They […]
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Some people who experience Strategic Doing get so excited that they write us. We’ve gathered some of these comments and put them together. They make for some inspiring reading. Strategic Doing Testimonials from Ed Morrison
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