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Why Companies and Government Do “Innovation Theater” Instead of Actual Innovation

Steve Blank

The type of disruption most companies and government agencies are facing is a once-in-every-few-centuries event. Ultimately, companies and government agencies need to stop doing this or they will fail. By process I mean all the tools that allow companies and government to scale repeatable execution. Process Versus Product.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Hacking for Defense has teams of students working to understand and solve national security problems. This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10 weeks. This was my sixth time teaching a virtual class during the lockdown – and for our students likely their 15th or more.

Lean 417
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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Second, doing customer discovery via video actually increased the number of interviews the students were able to do each week. The eight teams spoke to over 945 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc.

Oakland 315
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NYU Commencement Speech 2016

Steve Blank

The Lean LaunchPad class is now taught around the world – and VC’s expect entrepreneurs to talk about not just their technology but their customer development findings. government is still operating like a 20 th century organization while our adversaries are operating at 21 st century speed.

Lean 224
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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

This meant the class was team-based, Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering) and experiential – where the students, rather than being presented with all of the essential information, must discover that information rapidly for themselves. What is unique about Wicked Problems?

Lean 295
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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doing things. The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a great example. The NGA, an organization within the U.S.

Lean 185
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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doing things. The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a great example. The NGA, an organization within the U.S.

Lean 185