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Complex or Complicated?

By Scott Hutcheson | February 10, 2019

Complex or complicated? Which term better describes what you and your community or organization is facing? Rocket science is complicated. Addressing the opioid crisis is complex. Reducing vehicle emissions by…

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Strategy: More like an Algorithm than a Roadmap

By Scott Hutcheson | February 10, 2019

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…

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Strategy Is a Team Sport

By Scott Hutcheson | February 2, 2019

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…

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Birds of a Feather…

By Scott Hutcheson | February 2, 2019

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)…

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New Skills for K-12 Faculty

By Scott Hutcheson | October 26, 2018

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…