strategic doing in workforce innovation: innovations, results, and a lesson
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What does the 21st Century Workforce System look like. We began to see the contours in with a remarkably successful project in Indiana. I presented these slides in the annual meeting of the Australia New Zealand Regional Science Association International meeting in Australia in December 2013.TRANSCRIPT
ED MORRISON DECEMBER 2013
STRATEGIC DOING WORKFORCE INNOVATION IN REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT !
INNOVATION IN REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PANEL ANZRSAI CONFERENCE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND HERVEY BAY, AUSTRALIA
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The Challenge
The United States Workforce Investment Act “has failed to keep pace with changing economic conditions.” !
National Skills Coalition February 212
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-10
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5
10
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1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
High educated occupations
Medium educated occupationsLow educated occupations
Percent change in employment share relative to 1998
Source: OECD 2013
The shifting foundation of global competitiveness…more skills
The Experiment
What does an 21st Century workforce-education-economic development system look like?
The Big Question…
Starting point: 13 regions with $15 million to each
The Innovation
Strategic Doing!+ !Collaborations that are scalable, replicable and sustainable!= !Regional Transformation
Our Hypothesis
Innovation 1: Strategic Doing on a regional scale
Innovation 2: Simple, iterative strategy process
Innovation 3: Opportunity Fund for seed investments!in promising collaborations
Phase 1 Grants: Exploratory
Phase 2 Grants: Pilot
Phase 3 Grants: Scale up
Innovation 4: Simple stage gate process
Replicable = f (knowledge)
Scalable = f (cost structure)
Sustainable = f (value created)
Innovation 5: Managed, lean, open network
60+ initiatives31 partner organizations200+ metrics
But only...
1.5 FTE in direct administration
Innovation 6: Metrics for agility and learning
200+ metrics tracked over 60+ initiatives
Innovation 7: Swarm innovation!(how to start!an ecosystem !forming)
The Results
Started Training Completed Training
16,355
25,351
6,117
8,768
Target Outcome
Exceeded targets by nearly 3X
2.9X
2.7X
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4
7
11
15
18
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15
Initial InvestmentDirect Leverage
1.5X
Triggered $1.50 in additional investment for every $1.00 invested
Swarm innovation… 60+ pilot collaborations… 80%+ continued past initial funding
Example…Guitar summer camp: Now a national STEM initiative
Example…Green collar manufacturing Now a national manufacturing initiative
Example…Strategic Doing Now rolling out nationally
The Key Lesson
Be patient and persistent… Innovation networks take time to form…go slowly at first to go fast later on
Thank YouEd Morrison [email protected]