Lesson 9 Overview

Lesson 9 Overview

Summary

When translating a purpose-driven sustainability concept, at a certain point, translation into a mature program must happen.  A significant part of that translation depends on the organization, its capabilities, and its competencies.  While you may eventually be able to hire outside consultants and allocate extensive resources, you will likely find that the fastest path to an initial concept is in leveraging the org's existing resources.  In reality, this can many times come down to resourcing the concept via the 'beg, borrow, acquire' approach, as you may not have the time or resouces to go external at this point.  Whether tapping into someone's time and expertise or gaining access to specific tooling or equipment, some favors may be needed in early-phase development.

In leveraging any platform, strategy, or concept, a significant aspect in success will be how it integrates into the framework of the organization itself.  One program may be a wonderful, logical fit for an organization and experience an easy transition and launch, where translating that same program into a different organization may be a poor fit which will not come to fruition regardless of resourcing.

The overarching purpose of this Lesson is to take the concept into the next step of development and help you to understand the interface between concept and organization. 

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

• discern the functional and cultural competencies of the organization;
• deconstruct an organization to understand core competencies and how they may be leveraged in innovation platforms;
• create and modify strategies depending on organizational contexts.

Lesson Roadmap

Questions?

If you have any questions, please send them to my axj153@psu.edu Faculty email. I will check daily to respond. If your question is one that is relevant to the entire class, I may respond to the entire class rather than individually.