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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. These are innovation activities , not deliverables.

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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

To promote innovation inside the NGA, they’ve staffed an Enterprise Innovation Office (EIO) to coach, educate and advise the entire agency, from core leadership to the operational edges, with methods and concepts of validated learning through rapid experimentation and customer development. Up to 15 teams who can do this can win $10,000.

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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

To promote innovation inside the NGA, they’ve staffed an Enterprise Innovation Office (EIO) to coach, educate and advise the entire agency, from core leadership to the operational edges, with methods and concepts of validated learning through rapid experimentation and customer development. Up to 15 teams who can do this can win $10,000.

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

Steve Blank

Some are strategic peers, some are near peers in specific areas, some are threats as non-state disrupters operating with no rules. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. Newell ran the U.S.

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

Steve Blank

It seemed to make sense to have have all the parties represented at the committee, so lots of people attended – program managers who controlled the budget, the developers responsible for maintaining and enhancing the current product and building new ones, and representatives from the operating divisions who needed and would use these products.

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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

Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations. 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.” Lean offers State speed and agility to deliver rapid solutions that are needed and wanted.