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Janesville – A Story About the Rest of America

Steve Blank

When I got out of the Air Force after Vietnam, I lived in Michigan and I installed process control systems in automobile assembly plants and steel mills across the industrial heart of the Midwest. And while we gave those policies polite names like globalization and outsourcing, the consequences have wreaked havoc on towns like Janesville.

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

Forty years before Agile Development methodologies became popular, ESL had analysts from its &# customer&# sitting side-by-side with ESL engineers designing new equipment together. The Arms Factories that Won the Cold War Were Semiconductor Factories Who was the government official pushing all of this? Yet while the U.S.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 10 – The DOD and Modern War –– Michèle Flournoy

Steve Blank

Throughout the 1990s, we were focused on how to integrate China into the global system so that it would become a responsible stakeholder. And so this very agile, iterative process of bringing new technologies and prototyping systems. But also, to bring more tech talent into government to really help speed the transformation process.

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The Coming Chip Wars

Steve Blank

If negotiations fail, China may respond and escalate, via one of many agile strategic responses short of war, perhaps succeeding in coercing the foundry to stop making chips for American companies – turning the tables on the United States. laws, The report recommended that no government or contractor systems include Huawei systems.

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