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Designing and Guiding Ecosystems with Strategic Doing

Presenters: Bob Brown, Michigan State University;

Janyce Fadden, University of North Alabama;

Ed Morrison, Purdue University

Abstract

• Strategic Doing has become an effective operating system for ecosystem development. Learn about three efforts to use Strategic Doing to transform ecosystems: in regional workforce development, in a community, and in an economic cluster. You will learn how to begin the transformation journey with small steps, rapidly taken.

Ecosystem proposition

• Proposition 1: It is possible to develop strategy in the open, loosely connected networks that characterize entrepreneurial ecosystems by following a discipline of simple rules.

• Proposition 2: Universities can design platforms to guide and accelerate the development collaborations from which entrepreneurial ecosystems emerge.

• Proposition 3: An entrepreneurial ecosystem develops through a series of phases or “horizons”.

• Proposition 4: A dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystem emerges from a portfolio of complex, interconnected collaborations in four strategic focus areas: 1) talent development; 2) entrepreneurial support networks; 3) quality connected places; and 4) new narratives; and 5) planned activities to increase intentional interactions and collaborative skills.

Ecosystem model

Conversation shifts.-- Collaborat ions begin t o form with conversat ions among companies that share a similar “compet it ive space”. Part icipants begin t est ing ideas about colabrot ion.

Core team forms.-- As focused conversat ions cont inue, common int erests emerge. These shared interests drive conversat ions to deeper detail. A core team emerges to design and guide ecosystem development

Strategic agenda emerges.-- Members of the emerging network begin t o focus on st rategic opportunit ies. These opportunit ies emerge as ! rms “link and leverage” their assets.

Init ial pilot projects launch.

— As the collaborat ions form, members develop a st rategic agenda: a port folio of pilot projects t o st rengthen themselves through collaborat ion.

Collaborat ions continue to

invest , adapt and expand.-- Addit ional pilot projects launch. Connect ions within the network become more dense and spontaneous. New shared init iat ives build out the collaborat ion.

Time

Level of Ecosystem

Development

Conversat ion shif t s

Core team forms

St rategic agenda emerges

Init ial pilot projects launched

Networks cont inue t o invest , adapt , expand

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Ecosystem proposition 1

• Proposition 1: It is possible to develop strategy in the open, loosely connected networks that characterize entrepreneurial ecosystems by following a discipline of simple rules.


• Proposition 2: Universities can design platforms to guide and accelerate the development collaborations from which entrepreneurial ecosystems emerge.


• Proposition 3: An entrepreneurial ecosystem develops through a series of phases or “horizons”.


• Proposition 4: A dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystem emerges from a portfolio of complex, interconnected collaborations in four strategic focus areas: 1) talent development; 2) entrepreneurial support networks; 3) quality connected places; and 4) new narratives; and 5) planned activities to increase intentional interactions and collaborative skills.

Ecosystem implementation

Brainpower

research and talent

Support Networks

start-ups and innovation

New Narratives

branding and stories

Quality Places

connected spaces and policies

Collaboration

Intentional

interactions and

collaboration

discipline

Ecosystem slides: Community


2019 WOW Outreach as a Movement

2015 Deep Engagement

2015 Authentic Collaboration

2011 Strategic Doing

2010 Key Roles – Convener, Connector, Collaborator, Capacity-Builder

2009 Principles of Community Development

2002 Vision and Mission


WOW Outreach Neighborhoods Without Borders

Unity March & Resource ExpoYouth Ambassadors

Teen SummitLiving Room Conversations

Destiny’s HouseFlint Youth Research Partnership

Neighborhood RalliesClean and Green

Tendaji TalksHugs for Unity

Ask An AmericanFlint 1,000

Welcoming Neighbors

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UNA introduced the Strategic Doing™ process to convene and inspire community partners to be part of transforming the way the region views economic development

Ecosystem slides: Cluster- Shoals Shift

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Ecosystem slides: Cluster


• Competitions spread out over a year to build momentum

• Recognize other events

Design a Workforce Ecosystem

“Transform your Workforce System”

The federal government

Designing a Platform and Governance

$15 Million for DOL

Core Team

Focus

Area

Initiative

Initiative

Initiative

Advisory Team

Focus

Area

Focus

Area

Focus

Area

Initiative

Initiative

Initiative

Initiative

InitiativeInitiative

Initiative

Initiative

Initiative

Moving through horizons

Time

Level of

Open

Innovation

Conversations shift

Core team forms

Strategic agenda emerges

Initial projects launch

Ecosystem continues to

invest, adapt, expand

Conversations shift.-- The

process started with a regional

forum to introduce how Purdue

proposed to change the regional

workforce conversation toward

collaboration. The initial forum

took place in Kokomo to allay

concerns that Purdue would

dominate the funding process.

2005 2005

Core team forms.— Purdue’s

team of Hutcheson, Morrison and

Hosea formed a core team of

trusted partners with whom they

had worked in the past. These

partners came from other

organizations in the region. The

core team agreed on how

decisions would be made. They

adopted a “consensus minus 1”

rule for moving forward.

2006

Strategic agenda emerges.—

The grant application included

several large scale opportunities

to invest across the region,

including Project Lead the Way

High Schools, a pre-college

engineering curriculum. More than

1/3 of the funds, however, were

allocated to an Opportunity Fund.

The core team managed the fund

like a seed fund to invest in

promising collaborations.

Initial pilot projects launched.—

The initial projects out fo the

Opportunity Fund demonstrated

how this new approach to regional

collaboration would work. The

core team designed the

Opportunity Fund following the

successful Small Business

Innovation Research program of

tiered investment.

2006 2007-2009…

Ecosystem continues to invest,

adapt and expand.-- The core

team invested in initiative

proposals that made the case that

they could be replicable, scalable

and sustainable. About 80% of

the initial projects that were

launched through the Opportunity

Fund continued beyond initial

funding.

Developing a portfolio: 60 initiatives

Regular convenings in Delphi

LafayetteKokomo

Delphi

Replicable, scalable, sustainable

New Tech Network:

Indiana

New Tech Network: Indiana

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Calumet Dekalb

Fusion

Dekalb

High

Eagle

Tech

Goshen

Middle

Hosford

ElementaryLincoln

RiversideLake

RidgeLakeland

High

Lakeland

Middle

Longfellow

Elementary

Lowell

High

Lowell

Middle

Model

ElementaryWayneArsenal

Evansville Renaissance

Rochester

Bloomington

Scottsburg

TowlesViking

Washington

Waterloo

Weidner

New Tech Network:

Indiana We invested in

a replication

strategy here

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