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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. But this type of innovation requires leadership who understands that is their goal.

Incubator 331
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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

The good news for the country is that the leadership of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency has decided to turn the ship now. Stage 2: the teams demo their solutions and other features they’ve added against a new data set live to an NGA panel of judges, in hackathon style competition. And the winners get to go Stage 2.

Lean 177
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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

The good news for the country is that the leadership of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency has decided to turn the ship now. Stage 2: the teams demo their solutions and other features they’ve added against a new data set live to an NGA panel of judges, in hackathon style competition. And the winners get to go Stage 2.

Lean 177
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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. The result will be agency leadership creating new organizational structures that make innovation a continual process rather than an ad hoc series of heroic efforts. Newell ran the U.S.

Community 212
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How companies strangle innovation – and how you can get it right

Steve Blank

It didn’t help that “innovation” was the new hot-button buzzword from senior leadership, and incubators were sprouting in every division of their company, it just made their job more unmanageable. Approvals tended to be based on who had the best demo and/or slides or lobbied the hardest. As the head of the U.S. Lessons Learned.

Incubator 312