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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

Today, every government agency, service branch, and combatant command is adopting innovation activities (hackathons, design thinking classes, innovation workshops, et al.) With Agile development, used by all startups, updates can occur in weeks or sometimes days, or even hours. So, the question is: What’s next?

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

Massachusetts is rapidly moving as well. Eric Ries : Listen, you're talking to someone who's been trying to pitch people an organizational transformation for speed and agility as an organizational capability for years. Eric Ries : Yeah. All those localities have something in common. Jeremy Howard: Right. Or the UK government.