2. • How do you reduce teen
homicides?
• What do you do when it
seems your region’s best
days are behind you?
• How do you figure out
what’s next when your
business fails?
• Other complex challenges
8. Blckburn, S., Ryerson, S., Weiss, L., Wilson, S. and Wood. C. (2011). How do I
implement complex change at scale? McKinsey & Company. Available at
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Strategic Plans
13. 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
14. 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
23. Strategic Doing is a strategy discipline
designed for open, loosely connected
networks
24. Strategic Doing enables people to
form action-oriented collaborations
quickly, move them toward
measurable outcomes, and make
adjustments along the way.
33. 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
47. “Economic development is the
identification of local assets for
growth and leveraging them
through collaboration. The best
methodology I’ve seen in 20 years
fore doing this is Strategic
Doing. ”
- Paul Colits, President of the
Australia/New Zealand
Regional Science Association
48. “Following the principles of Strategic
Doing you can grow both
communities and businesses.A
small group of folks established
Medora, Indiana (pop. 631) as the
birthplace of the National Maple
Syrup Festival and no amount of
strategic planning could have
helped my business, Burton’s
Maplewood Farm, launch a
collection of artisan syrups, favorites
of America’s top chefs and and sold
at exclusive farmers markets and
other discriminating outlets across
the U.S. It took Strategic Doing!”
Tim Burton, Festival Founder &
49. 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, Flint, MI
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actions of effective group work. Research presented at 2015 Physics Education
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