This document provides an introduction to strategic doing and how it can help connect people, employers, and training in Richmond, Indiana. It discusses that regions face major workforce imbalances that no single group can fix alone. Strategic doing is presented as a solution, with key features including an open, collaborative strategy process based on learning by doing through quickly formed partnerships that leverage existing assets. The document suggests Richmond could develop a steady flow of skilled workers into manufacturing by taking a strategic doing approach of linking, leveraging, and aligning different groups through collaborative civic investments and networks.
Richmond Indiana: Introduction to Strategic Doing May 2013
1. Richmond, IN
Introduction to
Strategic Doing
CONNECTING PEOPLE, EMPLOYERS AND TRAINING
Ed Morrison and Peggy Hosea
Regional Economic Development Advisor
Purdue Center for Regional Development
May 22, 2013
3. The 30,000 foot view
We have major imbalances that no single group can fix
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4. how do we meet the challenge?
old ways of thinking, behaving and doing don t work
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5. There s another way
The Switch point: We can collaborate to compete
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6. What is strategic doing?
Key features
‣ strategy process for open, loosely joined networks
‣ based on learning by doing
‣ quickly formed collaborations
‣ asset based -- using what you have
‣ shared, measurable outcomes and a roadmap
Regions and
communities across the
country are
experiencing the power
of strategic doing"
16. networks change everything
from technology to business models
Who makes
the iPhone?
Wizard of Oz
made in 1939
by ONE
company
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Spider Man 3
made by 56
companies in a
network
A network
made by Apple
17. How do we move forward?
we need New ways of thinking, behaving and doing
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