Introducing Strategic Doing

July 22, 2012

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Our Focus

Scalable and sustainable regional innovation initiatives

How do we deal with complexity?

How do we do this?

s How do we guide open networks?

Not rocket scienceIt’s more complex (like molecular biology)

We started with Open Source softwareHow did Linux happen?

Strategy answers 2 questions:Where are we going? How will we get there?

How do we do that?In the face of all this complexity

Manage complexitywith simplicityWe need simple approaches to strategy

Strategic Doing guides conversation Asking four questions: Simple, but not easy

Thank you Ed Morrisonedmorrison@purdue.eduedmorrison.com