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Connecting Collective Impact and Shared Value
Are the concepts of “collective impact” and “shared value” connected? If so, how? Consider first the case of collective impact. In their article in the Winter 2011 issue of Stanford Social Innovation...
View ArticleAgile Strategy is Like Ocean Kayaking
Today, organizations of all types are facing an uncertain future. While we hope for calm times in which we can make steady progress, we know that turbulence can arise at any moment and throw us off...
View ArticleStep 1: Creating new narratives
In the world of networks, narratives provide guidance. They convey knowledge. They generate learning. They create coherence. They reflect and spread the positive mindset needed for transformation and...
View ArticleIs Collective Impact transformative?
Ever since its debut in 2011, the concept of “Collective Impact” has offered the hope that citizens, acting together, can productively address the “wicked problems” confronting our communities. As set...
View ArticleRebuilding our civic economy
Our future prosperity depends on developing new, collective habits of complex thinking together. At the Purdue Agile Strategy Lab, we have introduced the concept of a “civic economy” to explain the...
View ArticleTo go quickly, go slowly (at first)
I (re)learned a valuable lesson this week. We design and guide new networks to move quickly, to be come more agile. The paradox, however, is that you cannot rush the formation of these trusted...
View ArticleOur out-dated thinking about communities
Our traditional approach to community development no longer works. Consider these facts: The opioid crisis is overwhelming our capacity to respond with traditional thinking. In Indiana, for example, 11...
View ArticleThe shiny attraction of tax cuts
Years ago, as I was working on consulting teams, we helped companies like GE globalize their production. That meant moving jobs out of the U.S. The only way for the U.S. to adjust to this new global...
View ArticleStart-up and innovation ecosystems: Testbeds
It’s no surprise that academic research often lags behind market developments (Brown & Mawson, 2017). What if, to help us close this gap, we thought of practitioners and policy makers as...
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Designing platforms to design ecosystems
Ecosystems form on top of platforms. Ecosystem design starts with platform design. By designing the platform and guiding interactions on the platform, ecosystem builders can encourage the formation of...
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