Posts by Scott Hutcheson
Strategy: More like an Algorithm than a Roadmap
Perhaps you’ve seen the video of Boston Dynamics’ robot Atlas exiting their building for a walk in a snow-covered forest, “going to work” stacking boxes in a warehouse, getting up after being toppled…
Read MoreStrategy Is a Team Sport
One of the theories embedded within our approach to strategy at the Purdue Agile Strategy Lab is the Law of Requisite Variety introduced by W. Ross Ashby. The idea is that a complex challenge…
Read MoreBirds of a Feather…
We watched this video today with our undergrad students to help them better understand the power of simple rules in complex systems. These birds are following three simple rules: (1)…
Read MoreNew Skills for K-12 Faculty
Teaching K-12 is not what it used to be. That’s especially the case for schools like the Purdue Polytechnic High School in Indiana and the Applied Technical High School in…
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