Strategic DoingPack

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Overview

This Strategic Doing Pack is designed to guide discussions in a Strategic Doing Workshop. Itrepresents a set of exercises that can help you keep your discussions focused. These exercisesare tied to Strategic Doing, a practice of thinking and acting strategically in open networks.At the end of the workshop, you should have touched on all of the topics needed to compile aStrategic Action Plan.Before you begin, you should pass around a sign in sheet to make sure that you have capturedall of the participants and their e-mails. You should also designate one or more people as your Knowledge Keeper. Capturing the keypoints of your discussion is vitally important to moving the conversation forward. As you putthese notes on the web, it enables people to reconstruct the history of the conversation and to join the conversation at any point.Ed Morrison of the Purdue Center for Regional Development prepared this Strategic Doing Pack. You can contact him atedmorrison@purdue.edu. Please include the following notice in yourslides:

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I. Our

Strategic Outcome

II. Our

initiatives

to achieve the outcomeIII. Our

metrics

to measure progress toward ouroutcomeIV. Our

next steps

to implement our initiativesV. Our

process

to stay connected and revise ourstrategy

Launching and Revising a Strategic Action Planfor Collaborations

By following the disciplines of Strategic Doing wegenerate a strategic action plan...Our first version(very rough) is an alpha plan, Our next plan is morecomplete (a beta plan). When we are ready todistribute our strategic action plan more widely, welaunch with Version 1.0. Then comes versions 1.1; 1.2;1.3 and so on...

Moving around theStrategic Doing Cycle withStrategic Doing Packs

Strategic conversations aredifficult to keep on track. Wecan use workshop exercises tomake sure that we arefocusing our conversations onthe critical components of ourstrategy: defining clearstrategic outcomes;identifying partners who arealigned with this outcome;creating clear initiative (orproject) plans; makiingcommitments in an actionplan; and defining a processfor continuous revision andrefinement.We compile these workshopexercises into a documentcalled a Strategic Doing Pack