Agile Strategy

Don’t Confuse Remembering for Thinking

Don’t let remembering substitute for thinking.

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Discover, Design, Do – Repeat as Needed: Our Approach to Strategy Development & Execution

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 –…

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Promise-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…

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Is 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…

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We 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,…

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Thinking 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…

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What 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.…

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Reminiscing 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…

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Want 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…

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Complex 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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Strategy 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…