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

Steve Blank

Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. These Horizons also apply to government agencies and other large organizations.

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

Steve Blank

An existing company or government organization is primarily organized for day-to-day execution of its current business processes or mission. In reality for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed a process from start to deployment. There’s a much better way. Three common mistakes.

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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. PB: Everyone looks for a turnkey solution.

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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doing things. government’s open innovation and crowdsourcing competition. The NGA, an organization within the U.S.

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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doing things. government’s open innovation and crowdsourcing competition. The NGA, an organization within the U.S.

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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

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the State Department, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. 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.”