Strategic Doing Akron

Strategic Doing: Akron

White River Ferry at Norfork, Arkansas, circa 1900

Better understand he nature of collaborationIdentify what stage your collaborations are inConsider ways to move a collaborations to the next level

Complexity2

Community issues

are complex

Institutions emerged

to deal with the

complexity

There are lots of

institutions

No single institution

is “in charge” of

most public issues

Complex environme

nt

What wicked problems are you facing?

Seeing the Unseeable

Strategy12

Strategy = the employment of battles to win the war. - General Carl von Clausewitz

I will build a motor car for the great multitude. It will be so low in price that no

man will be unable to own

one. - Henry

Ford

Source: Bently Historical Library, Josephine Fellows Gomon Papers, Box 10, draft manuscript, The Poor Mr. Ford.

In 1928 Henry Ford’s River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan became the world's largest industrial complex, pursuing vertical integration to such an extent that it could produce its own steel. In this year he also established “Fordlandia” his rubber tree plantation in the Amazon Rainforest

The Ford Motor Company

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

71 cast and crew members all working for MGM

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Cast and crew of 2,000+, hardly any

working for MGM

iPhone

The world has changed a lot since we first started using strategies to chart our course

Share a “small world” moment you’ve experi-enced.

Here is one of mine.

Here is one of mine.

June 6, 2014, Stuttgart, Germany

Strategic planning

often spoils strategic thinking.

- Henry Mintzberg

Strategic Doing enables people to form action-oriented

collaborations quickly, move them toward measurable

outcomes, and make adjustments along the way.

Thinking, Behaving, & Doing in New Ways

Network Thinking

Strategic Doing

Leverages the Value of a Network

10 nodes, 9 connections

10 nodes, 45 connections

My Parent’s World My Kid’s World

There is no top or bottom in a network

Networks move us to new opportunities

http://www.slideshare.net/linkedin/mandel-linked-in-connections-reportnov-2014

The “most-connected”

communities had more than

double the job growth of the

“least-connected”

communities.



Innovating networks produce increasing returns

Mathematics says the sum value of a network increases as the square of

the number of members. In other words, as the number of nodes in a

network increases arithmetically, the value of the network increases

exponentially. Adding a few more members can dramatically

increase the value for all members.

- Kelly, K. (1999). New Rules for the New Economy

Collaborative Behavior

Strategic Doing Accelerates Collaboration

Turf

Trust

TIME

SharingResources

Sharing Information

MutualAwareness

Co-Execution

Co-Creation

Acknowledgment Exploration Cooperation Collaboration Innovation

Adapted from Collaboration Continuum from ACT for Youth

Doing in New Ways

Strategic Planning Strategic Doing

Strategic Doing is a strategy protocol built for networks

Strategy answers two questions.

A 30/30 commitment drives learning

Strategic Doing Focuses on Small Wins to Achieve Big Goals

Doubt and dwindling motivation comes on quickly when a big goal is missed. On the other hand, small wins lead to the progress principle - more confidence, high performance, and motivation to keep moving forward. - Teresa Amabile

Kokomo, Indiana

Workforce Innovations in Regional Economic Development- Designed & guided 60+ collaborations- Over 100 partner organizations- Tracked over 200 metrics- Hired 2.5 people to manage it all- 80% of initiatives sustained

Kokomo, Indiana2008 = One of the Fastest Dying US Cities2014 = One of the Fastest Growing US Cities

In neighborhoods besieged by complex, wicked problems, Strategic Doing creates hope through the power of taking action with the assets or gifts that

we already possess. In that moment when we combine assets, we begin to tell a new story of opportunity and possibility, and it gives us the power to change

our lives, our neighborhoods, and our communities.

Bob Brown, Associate Director of University-Community PartnershipsMichigan State University

We finally broke our “grant addiction.” Flint Community Resident

The key to these successes was that rather than focusing on investing in theright projects, we focused on investing in the right collaborations.

Is it… scalable, replicable, sustainable?

Strategy becomes a collective habit of ongoing conversation coupled with action, rather than an event or a document

Practicing Strategic Doing

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To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing.

- Pablo Picasso

Imagine the TorchBearers & Leadership Akron linking and leveraging their respective assets to drive transformation in this community. What would that look like?

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