creating an agile strategy for diversifying the valdez (alaska) economy
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Creating an Agile Strategy
for Diversifying the Valdez EconomyScott Hutcheson, Ph.D.
February 2015 - Valdez, Alaska
1) Good Money – Increase the amount of money coming into the community.
2) Neutral Money – Increase the velocity of money circulated in the region among local businesses
3) Bad Money – Reduce income leaving the community via outside purchases
Good money increases when products are exported and when outsiders visit and spend.
Bad money is reduced when locals invest more at home.
Neutral money speeds up with business to business trade.
The Valdez Economy: Three Flows of Money
Adapted from the work of Ed Morrison & David Morganthaler
I will build a motor car for the great multitude. It will be so low in price that no
man will be unable to own
one. - Henry
Ford
Source: Bently Historical Library, Josephine Fellows Gomon Papers, Box 10, draft manuscript, The Poor Mr. Ford.
In 1928 Henry Ford’s River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan became the world's largest industrial complex, pursuing vertical integration to such an extent that it could produce its own steel. In this year he also established “Fordlandia” his rubber tree plantation in the Amazon Rainforest
The Ford Motor Company
Strategic Doing enables people to form action-oriented
collaborations quickly, move them toward measurable
outcomes, and make adjustments along the way.
http://www.slideshare.net/linkedin/mandel-linked-in-connections-reportnov-2014
The “most-connected”
communities had more than
double the job growth of the
“least-connected”
communities.
We Create Networks by Connecting Assets
Kretzmann, J. & McKnight, J. (1999).Building Communities from the Inside
Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing
A Community’s Assets.
Strategic Doing Recognizes That We Can’t Predict the Future
Dr. Lowell CatlettEconomist, Futurist, and Professor
New Mexico State University
Strategic Doing Recognizes That We Can’t Predict the Future
One study looked at 7,000 different economic predictions and found 47% of them was correct.
Strategic Doing Recognizes That We Can’t Predict the Future
Flip a coin and you beat the economists by 3%.
Strategic Doing Accelerates Collaboration
Turf
Trust
TIME
SharingResources
Sharing Information
MutualAwareness
Co-Execution
Co-Creation
Acknowledgment Exploration Cooperation Collaboration Innovation
Adapted from Collaboration Continuum from ACT for Youth
Innovating networks produce increasing returns
Mathematics says the sum value of a network increases as the square of
the number of members. In other words, as the number of nodes in a
network increases arithmetically, the value of the network increases
exponentially. Adding a few more members can dramatically increase
the value for all members.
- Kelly, K. (1999). New Rules for the New Economy
Prosperity is not “winner take all”
Source: Clipart by C Charley-Franzwa - http://clipartof.com/50191
Strategic Doing Focuses on Small Wins to Achieve Big Goals
Doubt and dwindling motivation comes on quickly when a big goal is missed. On the other hand, small wins lead to the progress principle - more confidence, high performance, and motivation to keep moving forward. - Teresa Amabile
Workforce Innovations in Regional Economic Development- Designed & guided 60+ collaborations- Over 100 partner organizations- Tracked over 200 metrics- Hired 2.5 people to manage it all- 80% of initiatives sustained
The key to these successes was that Rather than focusing on investing in theright projects, we focused on investing in the right collaborations.
Is it… scalable, replicable, sustainable?
Strategy becomes a collective habit of ongoing conversation coupled with action, rather than an event or a document
• Local & Regional Economic Development
• Workforce Development• Community & Neighborhood
Development• Cluster Development• Local/Regional Food Systems• Community Health• Innovation Ecosystem Development• Strategic Alliances• Inter-Unit Organizational Collaboration• National Associations
Practicing Strategic
Doing
Strategic Doing in the “Literature”
Hutcheson, S. (2014). Effective Strategy inLocal & Regional Development.
Hutcheson, S. (2914). Effective Strategy Making In Economic & Community Development.
Morrison E, & Hutcheson, S. (2014). AcceleratingCivic Innovation with “Strategic Doing.”
To learn more and to connectScott Hutcheson, Ph.D.
Purdue [email protected]
www.pcrd.purdue.eduwww.strategicdoing.net
www.facebook.com/stratdoingwww.slideshare.net/jshutch
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