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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

I’m not going to talk about reforming the acquisition process, which many of your class speakers have mentioned and does need to get done. communication networks, then identify how China might exploit these weaknesses differently during the political coercion of Taiwan in the near-term vs open conflict in the long-term.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 14 – Planning– Major General Mike Fenzel

Steve Blank

The purple box in the middle is where the Joint Chiefs of Staff – and General Fenzel’s group — help develop the National Military Strategy (NMS), Joint Strategic Campaign Plan (JSCP), Joint Military Net Assessment (JMNA) and the Capstone Concept for Joint Operations (CCJO). And the Taiwan Straits are a hot-button issue.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – Wrap Up

Steve Blank

Final Problem Statement: How does the USG leverage a soft-power information campaign to support Hong Kong residents’ right to self-determination and democratic governance without placing individuals at undue risk (of prosecution as foreign agents under the National Security Law)? Original Problem Statement: How can the U.S. Team ShortCircuit.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

Today, HealthTab announced the acquisition of Q&A site Avvo Health specifically to increase the number of doctors within its network, doubling it to 30,000. The acquisition also brings a database of :hundreds of thousands of doctors and dentists across the country,” information that HealthTap previously licensed.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

How do we cut through the news in the disinformation campaign? One of my jobs in the past was consulting measures and acquisitions. What did Taiwan do? Getting clear, unbiased reports has been challenging, even for simple problems. So how are we supposed to get information out in the middle of a pandemic? What did China do?