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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

With the nature of work changing, the core skills entrepreneurs need to know to become practitioners are actually core skills that everybody will need to know to get a job: creativity, agility, resilience, tenacity, curiosity. Companies have more demos than they’ll ever need. which we call problem curation. “Is

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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

As part of the Department of Defense, the NGA acquires technology and information systems through the traditional DOD’s acquisition system – which has been described as the antitheses of rapid customer discovery and agile practices. The goal of Lean in government agencies should mean deployment not demos. Lessons Learned.

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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

As part of the Department of Defense, the NGA acquires technology and information systems through the traditional DOD’s acquisition system – which has been described as the antitheses of rapid customer discovery and agile practices. The goal of Lean in government agencies should mean deployment not demos. Lessons Learned.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. Great demos are shown and there are lots of coffee cups and posters, but if you look at the deliverables for the mission over a period of years the result is disappointing. Newell ran the U.S.

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How companies strangle innovation – and how you can get it right

Steve Blank

Approvals tended to be based on who had the best demo and/or slides or lobbied the hardest. Instead of having a committee vet ideas, they needed a process that operated with speed and urgency, and innovators and stakeholders who curated and prioritized their own problems/idea/technology. As the head of the U.S. Lessons Learned.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.

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Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

Lessons Learned – Not a Demo Day. Silicon Valley folks are familiar with Demo Days – presentations where the message is: “Here’s how smart we are right now.” These solutions, called Minimal Viable Products (MVP’s), are what allow the teams to become extremely agile and responsive.