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Lessons From Leaders

SVPG

Think in leaps, but iterate in steps" - I attribute this to Google, and I like it because it helps to highlight the need for both product vision and for Agile methods, and to help teams understand why these goals are not in conflict. "Be I have literally hundreds that I've aggregated and curated.

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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. Curating a crowd and persuading them to work together because the work meets their value proposition is hard work that takes incubation not just prizes.

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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. Curating a crowd and persuading them to work together because the work meets their value proposition is hard work that takes incubation not just prizes.

Lean 178
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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.

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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. A canonical Lean Innovation process inside a company or government agency would look something like this: Curation. Lessons Learned.

Incubator 313
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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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Adding Digital Accessibility and Purposeful Inclusion into Austin’s Smart Cities Strategic Roadmap

Austin Startup

Austin City Leadership recognizes it must engage in vastly new approaches to adjust and calibrate to social and economic challenges amplified by the lighting speed of technical and industrial advances. To address these challenges, Austin is taking a big leap into the Smart City pond. O’Conner give me a call!

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