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

Steve Blank

Disruption today is more than just changes in technology, or channel, or competitors – it’s all of them, all at once. These processes reduce risk to an overall organization, but each layer of process reduces the ability to be agile and lean and – most importantly – responsive to new opportunities and threats.

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Momentum — Team Effectiveness Training

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Momentum , is a one-day, intensive, team training workshop. The Tuckman Model is presented and each team workshops their progress towards high effectiveness. It can augment, Lean, Design Thinking or Agile approaches. CPS is used extensively by companies like P&G, Clear Channel, and IBM. Training Description.

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Why Being Human Is Your Brand’s Biggest Asset

Duct Tape Marketing

5:36] How do brands address the fact that there are so many channels to reach consumers that are in a lot of ways are out of their full control? [8:26] And I think particularly today, there's so many channels and ways to reach, uh, consumers that I think a lot of that's happened. So you could still be agile and respond.

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Lean Marketing for Startups and Small Businesses: How to Make the Most Impact with the Least Investment

crowdSPRING Blog

You’ve got to diversify your marketing channels and tactics. Test marketing campaigns across multiple channels to gain a wide range of information quickly. This diversified strategy will ensure that you can find the right channels to market in before spending too much time on the campaigns themselves.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. What about a hardware business with some long-lead-time components?

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Expo SF (May. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

They would make commercials about a new book series, and then run the commercials at times when the TV rates were low (late night, UHF channels, etc) If they got enough orders, they then decided to print the series. Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa. Expo SF (May.

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