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What Are the New Skills Need for Innovation? A New Report Points to Strategic Doing’s Ten Skills for Agile Leadership
This newly-released report out of Canada, The Mother of Invention: Skills for Innovation in the Post-Pandemic World points out that the COVID-19 pandemic forced many enterprises to innovate rapidly in order to simply survive. They contrast this with a 20-year effort of the Canadian Treasury Board that attempted to spur innovation by reducing risk. The…
AEM-Cube: Connecting People to Growth, Innovation, and Strategic Transformation
Growth, innovation, and strategic transformation are team sports, not solo ventures. Complex undertakings like these require a variety of ideas, mindsets, and areas of expertise to achieve results. This required variety doesn’t rest within the mind or experiences of any one individual, no matter how brilliant. Groups, organizations, and even groups of organizations have a…
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…
From Pipelines to Platforms
In their article in the Harvard Business Review, Van Alstyne, Parker, and Choudary (2016) point to the need for new mindsets and models for value creation. They contend that many organizational leaders have a “pipeline” view of how value is created. The authors make the case that this pipeline approach results in organizations and programs…
The Sounds of Change
Scott teaches a course at Purdue called Leading for for Change and Innovation. Early in the semester the students create a collaborative Spotify playlist of songs about change that are meaningful to the students. As you might imagine, the activity results in an amazingly eclectic collection. If you would like to listen to the playlist…
Hipsters, Hustlers and Hackers: The Relationship Between Strategic Diversity and Performance in Startups and Scaleups
These insights from Hutcheson Associates and Human Insight will be valuable to anyone with an interest in startups and scalesups. Other research has found that not having the right team is one of the main reasons new enterprises often don’t make it. But what makes a team right or wrong? This research sheds light on…
Swag!
It looks like face-to-face trainings will be resuming soon! Our next Strategic Doing Masterclass, however, will be virtual. So, we’re assembling some swag bags to send the members of our next cohort. The masterclass begins on May 25 and there is still a slot or two left. We would love to have you!
Strategic Hiring Analytics
Resumes and transcripts. Job postings and interviews. These are important artifacts in the matchmaking that occurs between job candidates and the organizations that hire them. They usually do a good job of helping match the knowledge, experience, and qualifications acquired by the candidate and required for the job. What they don’t do very well, however, is explicitly communicate a way…
Are You Prepared for Post-Traumatic Growth?
Ananya was an IT specialist for a pharmaceutical company and part of the team that helped ensure 24/7 support for hardware issues across the enterprise. Her company had been experiencing record profits and sustained growth for a number of years when a promising clinical trial unexpectedly had to be aborted in a very public, painful…
Are Your People Flailing or Flourishing?
A few years ago, I served on a taskforce focused on building a talent pipeline in key industries like healthcare and manufacturing. It was a gathering of leaders from industry, government, and education, all interested in assuring that there was alignment between skills needs and the curriculum being taught in our educational institutions. One of…
Henry Hutcheson
My name is Henry Hutcheson and I’m a junior at Purdue University studying technology and data science, majoring in data visualization. I anticipate graduating in May of 2023. I’m seeking projects and internships to apply what I’m in learning in my course work to real-world challenges . Using this page on my father’s company website,…