Keynote delivered to the annual meting of Municipalities Newfoundland Labrador. The Harris Centre at Memorial University has become a partner of the Purdue Agile Strategy Lab.

1. The Promise of Collaboration for
Newfoundland Labrador
Ed Morrison
Purdue Agile Strategy Lab
October, 2016

3. Can we generate
enough ingenuity?

4. What do you do when oil prices collapse?

5. Oklahoma City, 1993: How do you
transform a regional economy?
Santa Fe Parking Garage |
Chamber of Commerce in
the First Floor

6. How do we keep
them engaged?

7. When academic innovation means
moving…
…from this… …to this.

8. We all want
our kids to be safe

9. But what if we fail?

11. All of these challenges
are complex messes

13. Our old systems don’t
work well in a
networked world

14. Focus on your
customer…You are
working at a
generational game

15. We accelerate ingenuity by embracing
horizontal innovation
Organization A Organization B
Organization C

16. Grandfather Grandchildren

17. 17

18. Simple rules
create a swarm

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Who has called us…Where we’ve been

20. Oklahoma City, Today

21. We accelerated per capita income growth

22. We used Strategic Doing with our
partners to transform engineering
education at 50 universities

23. “The Strategic Doing
(SD) approach might be
one of the most effective
ways of implementing
change on campus.”
Ilya V. Avdeev, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

24. Community leaders in Flint are
rebuilding their neighborhoods

25. “Strategic Doing
gives us the power to
change our lives, our
neighborhoods and
our communities.”
Bob Brown
Michigan State University

26. How will you shape your future?

27. What will municipal
government look like in 2030?