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What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many

Steve Blank

It may be the hedge we need to deter China in the South China Sea. was fighting Al-Qaeda and ISIS, China built new weapons and developed new operational concepts to negate U.S. The sum of these Chinese offset strategies means that in the South China Sea the U.S. While You Were Out. military strengths. What To Do About It?

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 12 –The Space Force– General John Raymond

Steve Blank

China’s Anti-Satellite Demonstration. The next demarcation was 2007, when China launched a missile that blew up one of their own satellites into about 3000 pieces of debris. There are several lines of effort that we’re focusing on: We’re working to build the Space Force as a very Lean and Agile service.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

The eight teams spoke to over 945 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique.

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Does your startup really need to hire in-house developers?

The Next Web

If you spend all your time managing the product and the development of your product, then who’s out getting the customers? Derek Capo , Next Step China. . Agencies require minimal management. In-house development gives you more day-to-day control, and lean software development is far more feasible.

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How to Solve Problems in Your Business: Kanban, Kaizen and Scrum

Up and Running

The word kanban means “signboard” or “billboard” in Japanese, and it’s a concept most commonly applied to “lean” or “just in time” production. The word kaizen literally means “improvement,” and it’s another word that we’ve borrowed from our Eastern counterparts in China and Japan. Scrum: a flexible way to manage product development.

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Why Companies are Not Startups

Steve Blank

Facing continuous disruption from globalization, China, the Internet, the diminished power of brands, changing workforce, etc., 20 th century Management Tools for Execution In the 20 th century business schools and consulting firms developed an amazing management stack to assist companies to execute. StageGate Process.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

Join a select cross-disciplinary class that will put you hands-on with the masters of lean innovation to help bring rapid-fire innovative solutions to address threats to our national security. DF-21 and Islands in the South China Sea. Targeting, assessments, technology, recipes, and tactics all flow at the speed of a Lean Startup.