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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 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)…