25 years after helping to launch Oklahoma City's rebirth, I returned to celebrate. Why? Because OKC is the birthplace of Strategic Doing. From 1993-2000, I helped guide the civic leadership in the rebirth of their city. In the process, I worked on a new model of complex collaboration. It turns out we can build these complex collaborations by following a discipline of simple rules.. In my presentation, I explained how I took the lessons we learned from OKC and applied them in a wide range of really complex situations. Now it’s an open source discipline we are spreading across the world with a growing network of universities. My path with OKC's leadership is crossing again, and we have some exciting announcements coming. Stay tuned. ---- You can get more on the backstory in our book: https://lnkd.in/eqZSc5H

2. My journey started in a parking garage in
Oklahoma City, 1993.

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You completely
transformed
OKC with
collaborative
investment with
a discipline of
collaboration

4. You rebuilt this region’s Civic Economy
so the Market Economy could flourish

6. Oklahoma City is now a national model of
transformation

7. Now, let me share my journey since
I left OKC in 2000

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Strategic Doing is a strategy
discipline designed for open, loosely
connected networks

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Strategic Doing enables people to form
action-oriented collaborations quickly,
move them toward measurable
outcomes, and make adjustments along
the way.

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Strategic Doing is an open source
operating system for collaboration,
open innovation and ecosystem
development.

12. What really happened in that parking
garage?

13. High tech optics
factory run by
Chinese military,
1991
From my work in China, I knew
really big shifts were underway

14. A chance conversation with a physicist in
1992 pointed me to the power of open
source software development

15. In 1993, it was pretty clear that we were at
the beginning of a really big transition
between hierarchical and network thinking

16. Core Question 1: How do we move from
strategic planning to strategic doing?

17. Core Question 2: How do we overcome
fights over turf and get people moving in
the same direction?

18. Stories from Charleston, Milwaukee,
Purdue, New Jersey, Flint, the Hague,
Brisbane , Puerto Rico

19. Meet Ernest. His question in 2001:
“How could we build a dynamic technology
cluster in Charleston ?”
Ernest Andrade

20. Today…The 75th largest metro…
…among the 10 fastest growing in
software and Internet technology

21. ✓13 regions nationally
✓$15 million each
✓3 years to innovate
2005: A challenge from the federal
government: “Transform your Workforce
System”

22. We used talent maps that I began
developing here in OKC

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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 nearly 3X…
40% of the national results with 8% of
the money

25. © 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
We launched the Milwaukee Water
Cluster in 2008
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 River
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
Environmental
Energy
Efficiency
Processing &
Treatment
Monitoring &
Detection

26. PaulRich
Mayor Governor
Milwaukee followed the lessons of
collaborative investment pioneered in OKC

27. Fast forward: Milwaukee is now a global
hub of fresh water technology

28. And remarkable initiatives have emerged…

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2012: How can we transform engineering
education at 50 universities?

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We used Strategic Doing with our partners to
transform engineering education at 50
universities: over 500 collaborations launched

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2016: How do we
make space research
more productive?

32. • When Elizabeth Taylor was given the responsibility of convening
both the Space Biology Program and the Human Research Program to
look for points of intersection and collaboration, she turned to
Strategic Doing.
• In the space of a couple of days in the heart of Silicon Valley in
California, she and her team guided conversations that led to the
launch of several complex collaborations, and perhaps even more
valuable, an on-going conversation about progress and what should
be accomplished next.

33. 2016: How do we develop a roadmap
for condition-based maintenance
across the destroyer fleet?

34. Strategic Doing allows a
business to quickly
identify an interested
ecosystem of local
businesses that have a
collective interest in and
capability to solve a
defined customer
problem.
Todd Tangert,
Former Combat Systems
Architect, Lockheed
Corporation

35. I’ve worked with large
companies trying to do
open innovation, but the
Strategic Doing process
is unique. This is the
most clear an concise
open innovation process
I’ve seen.
Mark Scotland, CEO
4.0 Analytics

36. 2011: Could we use Strategic Doing
to reduce teenage homicides?

37. Strategic Doing
gives us the
power to
change our
lives, our
neighborhoods
and our
communities.
AGILE STRATEGY LAB / / APRIL 2017
Bob Brown
Associate Director
Center for Community and Economic Development
Michigan State University

38. Paul Colits, Former
President, Australia New
Zealand Regional Science
Association
The best economic
development
methodology I have
seen in twenty years is
called Strategic Doing.

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Simple, but not easy questions
lead us to the other side of
complexity

42. Questions for a
Clear Strategy
Questions to
Design a Strategic
Conversation
Rules to Guide a
Strategic
Conversation
2
4
10

43. A growing number of universities are
embracing this open source approach

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We can teach these skills broadly and
at scale…We have developed a cross-
cultural approach to complex
collaboration

46. Las 10 reglas del
hacer estratégico
ED MORRISON
PURDUE AGILE STRATEGY LAB

47. We are engaging the next generation
of leaders

48. Thank you!