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7 Agility Initiatives To Keep Your Business Expanding

Startup Professionals Musings

With social media and smart phone apps, real product information spreads at astounding speeds. Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. Every entrepreneur must be alert enough to spot the change early, and agile enough to adapt quickly. It all starts with agile leadership.

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

Steve Blank

And from then on, innovation in semiconductors, supercomputers, and software would be driven by startups, not the government. Today, every government agency, service branch, and combatant command is adopting innovation activities (hackathons, design thinking classes, innovation workshops, et al.)

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7 Strategies To Enhance Agility In The Face Of Change

Startup Professionals Musings

With social media and smart phone apps, real product information spreads at astounding speeds. Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. Every entrepreneur must be alert enough to spot the change early, and agile enough to adapt quickly. It all starts with agile leadership.

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Agility Is The Key To Survival In Good Times And Bad

Startup Professionals Musings

With social media and smart phone conversations, real product information spreads at astounding speeds. Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. Every entrepreneur must be alert enough to spot the change early, and agile enough to adapt quickly. It all starts with agile leadership.

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7 Tips To Keep Your Team Ahead Of “Business As Usual”

Startup Professionals Musings

With social media and smart phone apps, real product information spreads at astounding speeds. Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. Every entrepreneur must be alert enough to spot the change early, and agile enough to adapt quickly. It all starts with agile leadership.

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7 Principles Of Business Agility To Dodge Disaster

Startup Professionals Musings

With social media and smart phone conversations, real product information spreads at astounding speeds. Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. Every entrepreneur must be alert enough to spot the change early, and agile enough to adapt quickly. It all starts with agile leadership.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. Both companies and government agencies struggle with how to deliver innovation at speed.

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