Here's an overview of the slides I used in a recent keynote for the Wisconsin Campus Compact.

1. Madison, WI
March, 2015
The Impact of Strategic Doing

2. The Northwest
Ordinance of 1787
created a
laboratory for our
democracy…it is
time to use it

3. The Great Lakes Nation
Article 3: Religion, morality, and
knowledge, being necessary to good
government and the happiness of
mankind, schools and the means of
education shall forever be encouraged.
Northwest Ordinance, 1787

4. Why is the
Campus Compact
more important now
than ever?

5. Bush Obama
Partisan differences continue to grow
and show no signs of reversing
Source: The Pew Research Center, Trends in AmericanValues, 1987-2012

6. State and local finances are tanking
everywhere
State and local operating balance for the U.S.

7. Squeeze out the waste
The Standard Solution

8. But that leads to relentless arguments…

9. and people dancing in circles…

10. What will the Great Lakes Nation look like
in 2030?

11. So, have we had enough?
Source: Clipart by C Charley-Franzwa - http://clipartof.com/50191

12. You’ve got company
Strategic Doing workshops

13. We have cracked
the code on
collaboration

14. We are not fixing
old systems

15. We are designing collaboration
platforms for “what’s next”

16. Strategic Planning
We embrace a new strategy process
designed for open networks
Strategic Doing

17. We design complex strategies by
following simple rules

18. “The best methodology I have seen
in 20 years.”
Paul Collits
President
Australia New Zealand Regional Science Association

19. First…The
Backstory

20. The Strategic
Doing story
starts here

21. …and continues here…
Mazda Manufacturing Complex
Hiroshima, Japan

22. …and continues here…

23. …and continues here…

24. What’s happening?

25. We are sitting in the midst of
a really big transition…

26. Grandparents Grandchildren
The foundations of our economy
are shifting…

27. Networks move us to new
opportunities

28. Strategic Doing started in an
Oklahoma City garage in 1993

29. Oklahoma City today
Photo by: Luke Barrett

31. Muhlenberg
Caldwell
Hart Metcalfe Adair
Green
Spencer Owen Scott
Ohio
Edmonson
Rockcastle
Knox
Morgan
Pike
Greenup
Estill
Lewis
Fayette
Union
Mercer
McCracken
Hopkins
The impact of globalization
on rural Kentucky

32. Can we build a high growth
ecosystem?

33. “The 75th largest metro ranks among
the 10 fastest growing in software and
Internet technology”

34. Brainpower
21 Century Talent
Innovation
Entrepreneurship
Supports
New Narratives
Quality,
Connected
Places
Collaboration
We need a portfolio of
collaborations

35. Fast Forward, Indiana, 2005

36. “Transform your
Workforce System”
• 13 regions nationally
• $15 million each
• 3 years to innovate
The federal government

37. “Do the math…”
14 counties +
Purdue
$15 million
= $1 million
each
County official

38. “Nope. Build the
collaborations.”
• 60+ collaborations
• 100+ partners
• 200+ metrics
• 80% sustained past initial funding
• 2 staff hired
Vic Lechtenberg, Purdue

39. 0
7,500
15,000
22,500
30,000
Began Training Completed Training Degrees/Certificates
Goal Result
2.7 X
2.9 X
2.7 X
Result: We exceeded goals by
almost 3X

40. 0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
Money
Results
With 8% of the money…40% of
the national results

41. First National Green Collar
Certification

42. The National STEM Guitar
Project

44. 44© 2008, Brian D. Thompson, UWM Research Foundation 10/6/08
Funds
Fluid Transport/
Civil & Ind. Engr.
Detection
Materials
Bioscience
Pumps/ Valves/
Components
Analysis/
Measuring/
Control
Water User
Consumer
Products
Treatment/
Processing/
Softening
Utilities
Funding Agencies
Academic Institutions
Private Sector
Public Sector
Milwaukee 7 Water Cluster
DOE
EPA
NSF
USDA
DoD
NOAA/DOC
Interior
World Bank
Foundations
International
Partners
NIH
Greater
Milwaukee
Foundation
UWM
Marquette
UW-Madison
WATER Inst.
Chem & Biosci
School of Freshwater
Science
CEAS
Physics
MSOE
Fluid Power
Rapid Proto Center
M7/GMC
MMSD
City of
Milwaukee
DNR
UNDP
Federal
Government
Municipalities
Water Council
Pentair• Filtering & purification
GE
Badger Meter
• Water meters
• Meter reading systems
Procorp• Water reuse & softening
• Phosphate & radium removal
AO Smith
• Water heaters
Kohler
• Faucets
• Materials, coatings, plating
• Casting technology
Miller Coors• Intake quality, output quality
• Energy consumption
AquaSensors
Thermo Fisher
Scientific
Fall Rive
Great Lakes Water
• Water treatment equipment Advanced
Chemical Systems
• Ind. wastewater treatment
CH2MHILL
• Engineering services
ITT
Sanitarie• Wastewater treatment
design
Flygt• pumps
SiemensJoy
Bucyrus
Veolia
• Water utilities
Opportunities
Environmental
• Algae control (& exploitation)
• Removal of PCBs from lakes & rivers
• Storm water containment,
• Road salt
• Ship’s ballast – policy/enforcement
• Aquaculture
• Lake Michigan contamination
• Policy issues – metering/incentives
Energy/Efficiency
• Ethanol production efficiency
• Tar sands water treatment
• Elimination of boiler scaling
• Increasing brewing efficiency
• Increased efficiency of water heating
• Speeding treatment for large volumes
• Increasing treatment efficiency
Processing/Treatment
•Municipal wastewater treatment
–Storm water treatment
–Reduced use of chemicals
•Industrial wastewater treatment
–Farm manure, food processing waste, metals
–Utilizing sewer sludge
•Residential Water Treatment
–Residential water treatment, home filtration
–Residential Water softening without salt
•Reverse Osmosis
•Softening
•Ships ballast - treatment
•Treatment targets
–PCBs in sewer pieps
–Desalinzation
–Radium in ground water
–Pharmaceuticals
–Phosphate
Monitoring/Detection
• Water security
• Real time monitoring
• User detection systems
• Real time sensing for life forms
• Pharmaceuticals
• Joe Aldstadt – analytical methods
• Peter Geissinger – detection
• Alan Schwabacher– pharmaceuticals in water
• Carmen Aguilar – microbiology
• David Petering –metal metabolism
• Val Klump
• Rohatgi, Pradeep – adv. castings, lightweight, lead-free
• Aita, Carolyn – advanced coatings
• Gong, Sarah – polymer materials
• Chen, Junhong – nano materials, sensors
• Li, Jin – pollutant transport modeling
• Bravo, Hector – hydraulic modeling
• Christensen, Erik – pollutants in water
• Amano, Ryoichi - CFD
• Pillia, Krisna – porous media modeling
• Kevin Renken- mass transfer
• Sobolvev – biproducts utilization
• Doug Cherkauer – groundwater hydrology
• Jim Waples – water aging
• Tom Consi – aquatic robots
• Tom Grundle - harbors
• Tim Ehlinger – aquatic systems
• Burlage – PCR environmental
test
• Shangping Xu – safe drinking
water
Partnerships
• Sponsored Research Proj.
• Shared equipment
• Graduates
• Workforce training
• Subcontractor/supplier
• Extramural grant support
• Philanthropic support
Cluster Effects
• Shared resources/equipment
• Collaborative grants
• Improved competitiveness
• Translational science

45. Milwaukee: The Capital of Water

46. 7
Figuring out
what’s next
after this
goes away

48. Rebuilding Flint neighborhoods

49. Redesigning engineering
education | 37 universities

50. “The Strategic Doing (SD) approach might
be one of the most effective ways of
implementing change on campus.”
Ilya V. Avdeev, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Founder, UWM Student Startup Challenge (SSC)
Director, Advanced Manufacturing and Design Laboratory (AMDL)
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

51. Medora, Indiana (population 693)

52. Connecting across Kansas

53. It comes down
to this…

54. Thinking in New Ways

55. Public Sector Private Sector
Old thinking leads to gridlock…

56. Our economy works differently…
Civic Economy:
Publicly valuable,
but not
privately profitable
Market Economy:
Publicly valuable
and
privately profitable

57. Prosperity emerges from
collaborations in
The Borderland

58. Behaving in New Ways

59. In a democracy, civility matters

60. Building trust takes doing…

61. Trust powers shared value on
The Borderland

62. Doing in New Ways

63. Strategy
answers
2 questions

65. A 30/30 commitment drives
learning and adjustments

66. “If your actions inspire
others to dream more,
learn more, do more and
become more, you are a
leader.”
John Quincy Adams

67. Connect
strategicdoing.net/wcc