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Larry Quick is a civic and corporate strategist. His unique combination of capability has been born out of over thirty years of direct ‘hands-on’ experience working within economic development, all forms of business and corporate strategy, innovation strategy, and community development. Over the past ten years he has focused on applying complexity and whole systems thinking to the question ‘what do organizations and places (cities, towns, villages, regions) need to do to be 21st capable?’ Through this research he has developed a leadership position in network and complex systems thinking and also developed and implemented new practical processes including foresight, placemaking, whole systems innovation, network strategy, multiple bottom line planning and regional innovation systems.
Based in the USA, but born and raised a devout ‘Aussie’, Larry’s experience spans Australia, Europe, Asia and the USA.
He has completed projects across a broad range of community, business, industry and government sectors for international and national corporations, government and not for profit agencies. These include General Motors Holden (Australia’s largest vehicle manufacturer), Telstra (Australia’s largest telecommunications provider), Simplot, Ciba Chemicals, all Australian state governments, and the federal government, RI State Government, RI Economic Policy Council, Coastal Resources Management Center, Cornish Associates, Congress for New Urbanism, EPSCoR (the National Science Foundation’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research), and the RI Economic Development Corporation.
A key focus of Larry’s research and work is network thinking and strategy and its application to ‘whole systems’ innovation for business, social, economic, environmental cultural, built environment development. Through his research and experience in network-based strategy, Larry is the author of the Plexus Process. Plexus is designed to apply complexity and network thinking to strategy.
Larry also specializes in Regional Innovation Systems and the need for re-thinking conventional approaches to national and regional innovation through using a complex systems-based approach to R&D strategy and innovation proliferation. His Open Platform Innovation Systems (OPIS) model was developed to provide an alternative approach to conventional R&D and innovation proliferation.
He is also a sought after speaker. Recent speaking engagements include the Creative Clusters Conference in Brighton, UK; the Creative Cities Summit in Florida, USA; the Critical Cities Think Tank in Melbourne, Australia; and Creative Places &Spaces in Toronto, Canada. He is also on the global advisory board of the Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit to be held in Philadelphia in June 2006, and on the Executive Committee of the Congress for New Urbanism to be held in Providence RI in June 2006.
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