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Source: Bently Historical Library, Josephine Fellows Gomon Papers, Box 10, draft manuscript, The Poor Mr. Ford.

In 1928 Henry Ford’s River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan became the world's largest

industrial complex, pursuing vertical integration to such an extent that it could produce its own steel. In this

year he also established “Fordlandia” his rubber tree

plantation in the Amazon Rainforest

The Ford Motor Company

iPhone

Strategic Doing provides the “simple rules” that enable people to form

action-oriented collaborations quickly, move them toward measurable

outcomes, and make adjustments along the way.

Kokomo, Indiana

Kokomo, Indiana

Workforce Innovations in Regional Economic Development

- Designed & guided 60+ collaborations- Over 100 partner organizations

- Tracked over 200 metrics- Hired 2.5 people to manage it all

- 80% of initiatives sustained

Kokomo, Indiana2008 = One of the Fastest Dying US Cities

2014 = One of the Fastest Growing US Cities

In neighborhoods besieged by complex, wicked problems,

Strategic Doing creates hope through the power of taking

action with the assets or gifts that we already possess. In

that moment when we combine assets, we begin to

tell a new story of opportunity and possibility, and it gives us the power to change our lives,

our neighborhoods, and our communities.

Bob Brown, Flint ResidentUniversity-Community Partnerships

Michigan State University

We finally broke our “grant addiction.”Flint Community Resident

Three of the proposals that emerged out of the Strategic Doing workshop were selected to move forward in the IU Grand Challenges initiative! That is out of a total of just 5 selected by the committee from 22 submissions university wide. Strategic Doing clearly paid major dividends for us.

Jeff White, Ph.D., Director

Integrated Program in the Environment

Initiatives Launched

The Strategic Doing (SD) approach might be one of the most effective ways of implementing change on

campus. It effectively replaces strategic planning, a

traditional pathway. At UW-Milwaukee, we have been able to

move forward ten projects related to I&E transformations of curricula and

institutional culture using SD. It is outcome driven, but more

importantly, it is adaptive. Our diverse team of faculty and

administrators have pivoted many times because of the continuous

feedback that we analyze and plug back in into the decision making

process.

Ilya V. Avdeev, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Department of

In today's collaborative management culture

Strategic Doing offers a tool that allows team members to

advance ideas to implementation quickly. The

Strategic Doing process selects ideas to which each member contributes and the

results are potentially as powerful as experienced with

Lean Management.Janyce Fadden, VP/General Manager

(retired) Portescap/Danaher Motion

People who’ve called us, places we’ve been

Where we are teaching now:Purdue Polytechnic InstituteHealth & Human Sciences

ManagementPharmacy

Where we are teaching now:Purdue Polytechnic InstituteHealth & Human Sciences

ManagementPharmacy

How could we teach every

incoming Purdue freshman

the deep skills of collaboration using Strategic Doing?

ECET 12000 Gateway To Electrical Engineering Technology ECET 17700 Data Acquisition And Systems Control ECET 17900 Introduction To Digital Systems ECET 22000 Professional Career Development ECET 22700 DC And Pulse Electronics ECET 22900 Concurrent Digital Systems ECET 27300 Modern Energy Systems ECET 27000 Electronics Prototype Development And Construction ECET 27400 Wireless Communications

ECET 38001 Global Professional Issues In Electrical Engineering Technology

ECET 43000 Electrical And Electronic Product And Program Management ECET 46000 Project Design And Development

Strategic Doing: The Game

Imagine that by the end of the semester our team was able to draw upon our respective strengths to

successfully design, build and deploy an engineering project that addressed a real need in

our community. What would that look like?

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