Strategic Doing
Strategic Doing Masterclass: Spring 2021 Cohort
What a joy it was to get to know this inspiring group of leaders who participated in our most recent Strategic Doing Masterclass. So happy to welcome them to the Strategic Doing Practitioner community. Each of these individuals is already doing remarkable work in their organizations and communities. We designed our masterclass to give leaders…
Spring 2021 Strategic Doing Masterclass Practitioner & Certification Training
Tomorrow, May 25, we kick off our Spring 2021 Strategic Doing Masterclass Practitioner and Certification Training. We have an amazing group of leaders in this cohort from these organizations: St. Jude’s Research Hospital – ALSAC Toyota Material Handling United Way Purdue University Indiana State University University of Nebraska This training filled up quickly. Interested in…
You need a strategy process that’s “just right.”
We’re convinced that one of the reasons so many leaders find our approach to strategy, Strategic Doing, so appealing is that it is, what we sometimes refer to as, “lightweight.” What we mean is that it isn’t a heavy process that will bog down you and your leadership team, in terms of your time and…
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 – adapting the plan as needed. Our approach includes three phases: (1) Strategic Discovery, (2) Strategic Roadmap Design, and (3) Strategic Doing. Strategic Discovery. The focus…
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 action items people take on. Our methods are informed by promised-based management as described by Sull and Spinosa in a 2007 Harvard Business Review article.…
Mental Contrasting: Because Wanting It Bad Enough Isn’t Good Enough
In Strategic Doing, the agile approach to strategy we use at Hutcheson Associates, moving from “What could we do?” to “What should we do” involves evaluating a number of potential strategic opportunities using our “Big Easy” criteria. The Big Easy calls on the strategy team’s collective intuition to decide which opportunity will likely have a BIG…
A Busy Start to 2021
What a busy and exciting time the first two months of the year has been. Here’s a little bit of what we’ve been up to. We’ve launched both Strategic Doing Pilots and Strategic Doing Transformation Initiatives to help organizational and civic leaders tackle complex challenges like: How do you design an entrepreneurial ecosystem within a large research university?…
Strategic Doing for Digital Innovation in Material Handling
Digital Innovation in material handling is not a technology play. It is an organizational challenge. We are bringing a new set of tools and frameworks to manufacturing leaders to help them accelerate digital innovation in material handling.
Is Your Organization a Virtuoso Performer?
If you’ve read our book Strategic Doing: Ten Skills for Agile Leadership I hope you read the forward. It was written by virtuoso cellist Yo-Yo Ma and he offers some wonderful perspectives. Yo-Yo has helped us gain some valuable new insights about organizational agility. Part of what makes a great musician a…well…great musician, is their brain’s…
Are you setting “zesty” goals?
We really like this thinking from Ron Ashkenas. He urges leaders to set “zesty goals.” These are goals that are short term, high priority, and challenging – goals for which there is a sense that they must be achieved! This is not too dissimilar to the notion of looking for the “Big Easy” that we refer to…
Strategic Doing in Healthcare
Hello. If you’ve found your way here, chances are it is as a result of an online course in which you were introduced to Strategic Doing in the context of the complex, often “wicked,” problems associated with healthcare. You were promised more information about how you could continue learning about Strategic Doing as a discipline…