FutureLearn Introduction to Strategic Doing: An Agile Approach to Strategy

Overview
Explore a new way of thinking about strategy
Today’s complexities demand agility and collaboration to do strategic work. This course introduces a strategy discipline called Strategic Doing.

The course will help you sharpen your ability to think horizontally in networks and you’ll gain insights on building trust at scale even among people who have never worked together before. You’ll understand what strategic conversations are and how they can be guided. You’ll also learn how strategies can be designed, tested, and adjusted rather than just sit on the page of a strategic plan gathering dust.

This course is for individuals who are interested in helping lead strategic transformations in their organizations or communities.

What topics will you cover?

• Today, both market value and social value are being created in open, loosely-joined networks, rather than the command-and-control hierarchies of yesterday.
  
  
• Traditional strategy tools, like strategic planning, don’t work in this new environment
  
  
• Doing complex work in networks requires approaches to strategy that are more agile and a style of leadership that is collaborative
  
  
• Purdue University has developed a new approach to strategy called Strategic Doing
  
  
• This course provided an introduction to Strategic Doing
  

Taught by
Scott Hutcheson