Innovation and Strategy for the Small American College
A quarterly newsletter from W. Kent Barnds, Augustana College
Issue 6 (July 2025)
- Three design teams become one super design team
- How to measure outcomes over activity
- Important vs. strategic
- From LinkedIn: "Twenty years and a community committed to innovation"
- HBR: "You Should Be Able to Boil Your Strategy Down to a Single Clear Visualization"
- Professional development opportunities for CSOs
Issue 5 (March 2025)
- Faculty workshop on best practices for student recruitment
- Bold & Boundless showcase and celebration
- HBR: "6 Strategies for Leading Through Uncertainty"
- Professional development opportunities for CSOs
Issue 4 (Dec. 2024)
- Reflecting on a year of Bold & Boundless
- Roger Martin (Medium): "Strategy vs. Planning: Complements not Substitutes"
- Professional development opportunities for CSOs
Issue 3 (Sept. 2024)
- We market tested our strategic plan
- How we leverage the difference between strategy and strategic planning
- From LinkedIn: "What does innovation actually look like in higher education?"
- Professional development opportunities for CSOs
Issue 2 (June 2024)
- Strategy development in action
- Strategy and innovation in the marketplace: closures, alliances and mergers
- Howell Malham Jr.: "I Have a Strategy (No You Don't): The Illustrated Guide to Strategy"
- What am I reading?
Issue 1 (March 2025)
- Introduction
- Observations on mergers and acquisitions
- HBR: "A plan is not a strategy"
- Developing alternative futures
- Professional development opportunities