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Ed Morrison · Regional transformation from three perspectives
March 27th, 2011
Cross-posted at edmorrison.com
One of the joys of my current work comes in connecting with my brothers, Thompson and Hunter. Thompson heads an Internet company, Fuse Insight, and works in Portland, OR. Thompson is pioneering new approaches to leveraging the Internet to develop and guide clusters: an approach he calls community-sourcing.
You can read more here:
Hunter is now heading up an exciting experiment in Northeast Ohio to build sustainable communities. The NEO region is about the size of Connecticut with a denser population, so the challenge will be to link, leverage and align metros within Northeast Ohio around a common strategic framework. You can learn more about what Hunter is up to here:
Meanwhile, at Purdue I’ve been continuing to build our national network of universities and regions, as we deploy new approaches to strategy in open networks. Our team at Purdue has been working on the challenge of stimulating open innovation in clusters, such as the water cluster in Milwaukee and the clean energy cluster in Central Florida. Next month, I’ll be heading a Purdue team working with Michigan State University in Detroit and Southeast Michigan.
Strategic Doing: A New Approach to Designing and Implementing Strategy in Loosely Joined Networks
Although we did not quite plan it this way, all three of us are working on new approaches to complex civic collaborations. Through our work together, we are gaining the insights that come from different perspectives. Thompson has been learning how to leverage the Internet to build communities and clusters. Hunter has been focused on the complex challenges of physical planning to develop quality, connected places that are the foundation for competitive regions. Meanwhile, I have spent most of my time figuring out how to devise sophisticated regional economic and workforce development strategies by following some simple rules.
Last 5 posts by Ed Morrison
- Signing off - February 3rd, 2012
- "The current global development model is unsustainable" - February 1st, 2012
- Market opportunities for developing Chicago's green economy - January 29th, 2012
- Plain Dealer flubs its explanation for firing Tony Grossi - January 27th, 2012
- Linking and leveraging university assets to strengthen regional economies - January 27th, 2012
