1. An Introduction to
Open Source
Workforce Development
Thriving on the New Economic and Workforce
Development Frontier
November 19-20 , 2008
Ed Morrison
Purdue Center for Regional Development
I-Open
3. Critical tasks for today...and every week hereafter
1. Introduce yourself to one person you do not
know
2. Plan one extended conversation to follow-up
3. Close one triangle with an e-mail
introduction
4. • Exercise: Asset Mapping
• Story of the Transformation
• Speed Networking Break
• Brainpower Strategy Maps
• Stories of Transformation
• New Regional Leaders
• Exercise: Evaluating Your Current Process
• Strategic Doing Overview
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8. Focus first on our personal networks
that help you get stuff done
9. Focus first on our personal networks
that help you get stuff done
Name three people with whom you collaborate regularly
10. Focus first on our personal networks
that help you get stuff done
Name three people with whom you collaborate regularly
Name up to three people to whom you would go for
advice when you run into a difficult challenge
11. Focus first on our personal networks
that help you get stuff done
Name three people with whom you collaborate regularly
Name up to three people to whom you would go for
advice when you run into a difficult challenge
Name up to three people to whom you give advice
15. Some key take-aways
People are not just people...they are
nodes in a series of networks
These networks are big and they touch a
lot of assets
If we could figure out a way to connect
and align these networks, we’d create a
lot of new oppportunities
16. Which region is stronger?
Social Network Map
of the
Southwest Regional Leadership Forum
University of Evansville
March 17, 2006
Presented by the Indiana Humaniteis Council
17. Which region is stronger?
Social Network Map
of the
Southwest Regional Leadership Forum
University of Evansville
March 17, 2006
Presented by the Indiana Humaniteis Council
18. • Exercise: Asset Mapping
• Story of the Transformation
• Speed Networking Break
• Brainpower Strategy Maps
• Stories of Transformation
• New Regional Leaders
• Exercise: Evaluating Your Current Process
• Strategic Doing Overview
19. Economic Development in an Nutshell
Good Money: Increase the volume of
1 income into the region with competitive
traded businesses Rest of the
Neutral Money: Increase the velocity World
2
of money circulating in the region with
local businesses to create more jobs
1
3 Bad Money: Reduce income leaks Sales
by reducing outside purchases,
workers who move out, and
students who drop out Traded
Another
Businesses
region
2
Purchases and paychecks
Brain Drain and
Purchases
Local Businesses 3
Your eco Drop Outs
nomy Dependency
Source: Ed Morrison,
David Morganthaler
20. Economic Development in an Nutshell
Good Money: Increase the volume of
1 income into the region with competitive
traded businesses Rest of the
Neutral Money: Increase the velocity World
2
of money circulating in the region with
local businesses to create more jobs
1
3 Bad Money: Reduce income leaks Sales
by reducing outside purchases,
workers who move out, and
students who drop out Traded
Another
Businesses
region
2
Purchases and paychecks
Brain Drain and
Purchases
Local Businesses 3
Your eco Drop Outs
nomy Dependency
Source: Ed Morrison,
David Morganthaler
21. Economic Development in an Nutshell
Good Money: Increase the volume of
1 income into the region with competitive
traded businesses Rest of the
Neutral Money: Increase the velocity World
2
of money circulating in the region with
local businesses to create more jobs
1
3 Bad Money: Reduce income leaks Sales
by reducing outside purchases,
workers who move out, and
students who drop out Traded
Another
Businesses
region
2
Purchases and paychecks
Brain Drain and
Purchases
Local Businesses 3
Your eco Drop Outs
nomy Dependency
Source: Ed Morrison,
David Morganthaler
22. Economic Development in an Nutshell
Good Money: Increase the volume of
1 income into the region with competitive
traded businesses Rest of the
Neutral Money: Increase the velocity World
2
of money circulating in the region with
local businesses to create more jobs
1
3 Bad Money: Reduce income leaks Sales
by reducing outside purchases,
workers who move out, and
students who drop out Traded
Another
Businesses
region
2
Purchases and paychecks
Brain Drain and
Purchases
Local Businesses 3
Your eco Drop Outs
nomy Dependency
Source: Ed Morrison,
David Morganthaler
23. Strap on your goggles...
Our story begins with the emergence of our
Grandfather’s economy
24. Our story begins with innovation
in our Grandfather’s Economy
Coal Dumper, shores of Lake Erie, 1897
34. Drucker saw the new S-Curve
Every few hundred years in Western history,
there occurs a sharp transformation.
Peter Drucker, The New Realities
(1989)
35. A New S-Curve is Emerging
We are here
Prosperity
Time
37. Our Grandchildren’s economy is emerging
with wealth created by networks...
Granchildren's economy: Wealth
driven by network business
models
We are here
Prosperity
Grandfather's economy:
Wealth driven
by vertical business models
Time
38. Our Challenge: Find pathways to our
Grandchildren’s economy...
Linking and leveraging our assets
Source: Ed Morrison
39. Economies: Networks embedded in other networks
Economies are not just
metaphorically like open systems;
they literally and physically are a
member of the universal class of
open systems.
Eric Beinhocker, The
Origin of Wealth (2006)
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41. What’s the power of a network?
What’s the value of one cell phone?
What’s the value of ten cell phones?
42. We need a new base map
for our Grandchildren’s economy
50. • Exercise: Asset Mapping
• Story of the Transformation
• Speed Networking Break
• Brainpower Strategy Maps
• Stories of Transformation
• New Regional Leaders
• Exercise: Evaluating Your Current Process
• Strategic Doing Overview
51. Critical tasks for today...and every week hereafter
1. Introduce yourself to one person you do not
know
2. Plan one extended (“deeper”) conversation
3. Close one triangle with an e-mail
introduction
52. • Exercise: Asset Mapping
• Story of the Transformation
• Speed Networking Break
• Brainpower Strategy Maps
• Stories of Transformation
• New Regional Leaders
• Exercise: Evaluating Your Current Process
• Strategic Doing Overview
53. We need a new base map
for our Grandchildren’s economy
54. Strategies involve
linking and
leveraging assets in
five
“asset networks”:
1.Brainpower
2.Innovation
3.Quality places
4.Branding
5.Civic Collaboration
55. Finding the New Pathways:
Workforce Leadership in the Age of Networks
Brainpower Innovation
21 Century Talent Entrepreneurship
Networks
Civic
Collaboration
Quality,
Connected Branding
Places Experiences
56. Finding the New Pathways:
Workforce Leadership in the Age of Networks
Brainpower Innovation
21 Century Talent Entrepreneurship
Networks
Civic
Collaboration
Quality,
Connected Branding
Places Experiences
58. Here’s a simple definition of Brainpower
Workforce development coordinates the
development and delivery of brainpower
to competitive companies
We are running out
of brainpower to
drive high growth,
high income
businesses
59. Our Starting Point: Our Grandfather’s pathways
are too rigid, too simple or wrong
K through One
12 Career
K through 4 Years of One
12 College Career
60. Our Starting Point: Our Grandfather’s pathways
are too rigid, too simple or wrong
K through One
12 Career
K through 4 Years of One
12 College Career
61. Here’s a new Brainpower base map
Certificates
Pre- K through 2 years Careers
K 12
4 years
$10.00
per hour
Entry
level
Dependency
Cycle Working
poor
62. Old, rigid thinking produces too many people
below the line.
Certificates
Pre- K through 2 years Careers
K 12
4 years
$10.00
per hour
Entry
level
Dependency
Cycle Working
poor
63. Old, rigid thinking produces too many people
below the line.
Certificates
Pre- K through 2 years Careers
K 12
4 years
$10.00
per hour
Entry
level
Dependency
Cycle Working
poor
64. Remember our starting point: Overcoming some
potent myths from our Grandfather’s economy
The Smart Ones
The Not So Smart Ones
75. 70%+ of jobs are above the line
60%-70% of students fall below
76. Here’s what the workforce system looks like
Youth 14-18 On the Job and
Customized Training
Youth State Incumbent
Council Worker Training
Youth
19-21
Ex-Offenders
One Stops Dislocated
Adults 18+ ITA Vouchers Workers
77.
78. entrepreneurship
education P-20 councils
career academies
workplace certifications
STEM education green collar certificate
Project Lead the Way
high school redesign
dropout prevention New Tech High
Communities in Schools
cluster based initiatives
work readiness
certificates
Work Keys
79. Resources you can use to start the conversation
Two Million Minutes
http://www.2mminutes.com/
Education in 08
http://www.edin08.com/
80. • Exercise: Asset Mapping
• Story of the Transformation
• Speed Networking Break
• Brainpower Strategy Maps
• Stories of Transformation
• New Regional Leaders
• Exercise: Evaluating Your Current Process
• Strategic Doing Overview
83. New Tech High
Rochester
Fulton County, IN
The 23,000 Indiana high school students in the Class of 2008 who did
not graduate will cost Indiana $5.9 billion in potential lifetime earnings
Rochester Schools
Center for Excellence in
Leadership of Learning
University of Indianapolis
New Tech High Foundation
IndianaWIRED
