We are using agile strategy disciplines in Pathways to Innovation, an NSF-funded initiative, managed by Stanford and VentureWell (formerly NCIIA).

1. Redesigning
engineering education

2. We are not fixing old systems

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

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

5. We design complex strategies by
following simple rules

6. We link and leverage assets to find
new opportunities

7. We build networks with tight cores
and porous boundaries

8. We will build out from your Core Team
to engage Pathfinder Teams

9. Your Current Innovation
and Entrepreneurship
Assets
Your New Innovation and
Entrepreneurship System
We create system change by
designing new platforms

10. Core
Team
Project
Project
Project
Department
A StudentsFaculty
Department
B StudentsFaculty
Department
C StudentsFaculty
Pathfinder Projects attract assets to
your collaboration platform

11. We follow an agile strategy discipline
of relentless experimentation

12. We continually answer four simple
but not easy questions

13. Network Members
Name Organization e-mail
Strategic Doing Pack
What is your Framing Question?
What brings us together?
Knowledge Keeper
Today’s Date:
We use Strategic Doing Packs to keep
conversations focused and strategic

14. Our
Outcome.—
(Where
we
are
going):
Our
Success
Metrics.—
(How
we
know
we
have
arrived):
1.
2.
3.
Our
Pathfinder
Project.—
(How
we
will
get
there):
Our
milestones
along
our
way.—
(To
make
sure
we
are
not
lost):
Milestone
1:
By
________
we
will
be
__________________
Milestone
2:
By
________
we
will
be
__________________
Milestone
3:
By
________
we
will
be
__________________
14
Our
Key
Action
Steps
to
get
started.—
(What
we
will
start
doing
by
next
week):
Our
30/30
commitment.—
(When
will
we
get
back
together
to
continue
our
strategy
work?):
1. When:
2. Where:
Our strategy map
Who Task
We summarize our Strategic Action
Plan on one page

15. Your Current Innovation
and Entrepreneurship
Assets
Your New Innovation and
Entrepreneurship System
Workshop Exercise: Start connecting
assets to design new opportunities

17. Thank You
Ed Morrison
edmorrison@purdue.edu