Agile Strategy
Don’t Confuse Remembering for Thinking
Don’t let remembering substitute for thinking.
Read MorePlan, Do. Plan, Do. Repeat as Needed: Our Approach to Strategic Planning (and Doing)
Hutcheson Associates (HA) has deep expertise in helping organizations and communities in the development of strategic plans, in building local capacity to guide the ongoing implementation of the plan –…
Read MorePromise-Based Management
How to you get people to move from talk to action? In our approach to strategic transformation we use series of short-term Strategic Action Plans to document the collection of…
Read MoreIs Your Landscape Dancing?
Over the last few years, my colleagues and I have develop a new set of tools and insights designed to help leaders and their organizations to be more agile and…
Read MoreWe Don’t Care What It Says On Your Business Card
Picture this scene. There’s a wicked problem that needs addressing and you’ve been invited to a meeting to consider a set of responses. As everyone gets settled, the organizer requests,…
Read MoreThinking Sideways
We’ve been reading about the Extended Mind Theory, first introduced by philosopher Andy Clark and cognitive scientist David Chalmers. According to the theory, a person’s mind, and cognitive processing, are not…
Read MoreWhat If Strategy Was Everyone’s Job…for One Hour per Month?
One hour a month, that’s all we ask. In a given month, most people work 160 hours, give or take. So, 1/160th is our rule-of-thumb for a commitment to strategy.…
Read MoreReminiscing Forward: Guiding Others Toward a Future They Cannot Quite See Yet
“Daddy, I like thinking about our family at Christmas time. It makes me feel all warm inside.” My son Oliver came to me with this observation when he was about…
Read MoreWant Your Organization to be a “Virtuoso” Performer?
At the Purdue Agile Strategy Lab we are working with virtuoso cellist Yo-Yo Ma; and doing so is helping us better understand agility. In fact, Yo-Yo has written the forward to our new…
Read MoreComplex or Complicated?
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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