Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2015

Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. Moving forward, you should expect the market volatility to increase, driven not only by customers, but by new technology, changing government regulations, and a surge in new competitors. It all starts with agile leadership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Execution leadership. Leadership brand development.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Hedge Strategy – Create “the small, the agile, and the many”. In a world where the large and the complex are either too expensive to generate en masse or potentially too vulnerable to put at risk, “the small, the agile, and the many” has the potential to define the future of Navy formations. ONR’s plan is to move boldly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

As a business and entrepreneur advisor, I have no trouble getting owners and managers to agree that change is happening faster and faster in the consumer and technology world, requiring them to keep their business more agile , just to keep up. Crisis-driven agility is not enough today.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Given that software is central to every major DOD mission and system, we need to acquire and deliver software with much greater speed, agility, and cyber security. What do you consider your most important reforms initiated under your leadership today? I was 33 years in industry, before coming into government.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 16, 2024

Sustainability reporting, particularly about environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria, has burgeoned as a fundamental vehicle through which companies can reflect their operations’ social responsibility and commitment to sustainable development practices. It’s a benchmarking tool that can foster competitive advantages.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Mark Raheja, founding partner at August , a consultancy focused on organizational development, will be speaking as part of the enterprise learning track at Lean Startup Week about agility at scale. In thinking about the future of corporate agility and management, what modern practices are most vital to today’s leaders?

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 15, 2019

Even with the limitations of tools, government regulations, and the astonishing fragmentation of everything (attention, devices, consumption sources, identities and more). Four Negative Data Leadership Archetypes. I had an opportunity to spend time with him and his leadership team. Long-term…. : (. Paul Polman.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research. 2) The agile "happy place". Agile teams sprint when value is known, implementation is low risk. and business transformation.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Getting the blessing of department heads and other leadership gives staff freedom to participate fully in the process. We’re super lean and agile,” says Ortiz Shields, who works with two researchers in the city’s Office of Design & Delivery. Her advice: start top down with each office and get buy-in.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

We have taken time as a community and leadership team to reflect and set short and long-term goals and build programs to support and grow member success over time. 8-Stay agile. 2020 was a year of many lessons, but if I had to pick one takeaway, it would be the importance of agility. Photo Credit: Calista Redmond.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 7, 2020

While the government in nations like the UK moved swiftly to offer various financial support schemes, when these are withdrawn in the coming months and businesses are left to their own devices, it’s unclear which will sink or swim. To say that the Covid-19 pandemic has been challenging for businesses is a massive understatement.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Highlights from the show Jen describes her background in government-tech partnerships. (2:52) 12:44) A look at the three waves of requests coming from government. (14:06)

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Board Effect

MARCH 17, 2021

Nonprofit boards that are performing marginally will find it difficult to attract and retain quality talent for the board and executive leadership positions. BoardEffect’s goal is to simplify and streamline governance processes so your board can focus on getting the important work done.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

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. The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a great example. The NGA, an organization within the U.S.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

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. The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a great example. The NGA, an organization within the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2019

Past leadership success is definitely a competitive advantage. Many markets, including government and education, are especially difficult to penetrate, and connections to public leaders are very valuable. Promote any inside relationships or customer base.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Best practices for non-profit governance suggest that you comprise an executive committee that consists of your officers, board chair, and executive director. By design, executive committees were developed to help boards be more agile and prioritize the most important issues for boards to address.

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Board Effect

AUGUST 14, 2023

Building the leadership capacity of board members has been a focus of the nonprofit sector in the past few years, as the pandemic and other societal factors exposed the need for new types of expertise not just in the organization’s leadership but also among board members. Smaller boards may be more agile.” More agile, yes.

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Board Effect

JANUARY 15, 2020

Depending on the average age of the board directors and senior executives, organizations may have top corporate leadership teams that are primarily digital conservatives. It’s important for organizations to develop best practices for digital governance, especially in industries that are highly regulated. What Is Digital Governance?

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

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.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

To achieve this mission, we established a framework that leveraged Marine Corps tenacity, agility, and adaptability to create a persistent culture of innovation. Rapid implementation also allows leadership to make quicker decisions on where, when, and how to apply resources. Always Be Measuring. To think differently…be different.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

To achieve this mission, we established a framework that leveraged Marine Corps tenacity, agility, and adaptability to create a persistent culture of innovation. Rapid implementation also allows leadership to make quicker decisions on where, when, and how to apply resources. Always Be Measuring. To think differently…be different.

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Board Effect

JULY 16, 2023

. ———————————————————————————————– Step One: Identify What You’re Looking For Create your wishlist for a dynamic, diverse, agile, future-focused, ready-for-anything board. Governance surveys indicate that the vast majority of boards prefer to keep this task in-house with self-evaluations or evaluations by peers.

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Board Effect

JULY 14, 2022

If you have all the right qualities and leadership characteristics for an animal rescue nonprofit but don’t own any pets and aren’t crazy about animals, it’s not the best fit. Fiduciary duties are a central part of good governance. Be flexible, agile, and available for however long it lasts.

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Innovation sprints, hackathons, and other rapid, agile problem-solving and prototyping approaches may seem like the antithesis of the academic approach to research. Dr Mary Tate is an Associate Professor in Information Management at the Wellington School of Business and Government.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Such lapses in strategic vision and product innovation often lead to a company experiencing what is called a growth stall, a phrase coined by Matthew Olson, Derek van Bever, and Seth Verry of CEB , a leadership advisory network. billion, a 35 percent drop. Image Source. Swimming with Sharks. Growth teams are like those sharks.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 2, 2023

Lean scholars recognize the plethora of business and managerial frameworks available for entrepreneurs, such as agile, waterfall, and lean. DeVore is a, Air Force Veteran, Strategic Leadership doctoral student, and Systems Engineering Manager with over 25 years experience in the government sector. About the Author Lisa N.

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Board Effect

APRIL 14, 2021

Funding from governments and donors is competitive and scarce. Leadership succession planning. It takes a skilled, results-oriented board that’s agile and adaptable to changing conditions and is committed to leveraging the right digital tools to make their vision come to life. Adaptability. Strategic planning. Create Value.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

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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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

An existing company or government organization is primarily organized for day-to-day execution of its current business processes or mission. 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.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We assume it will be a 2-3 day discussion, but may be much longer, because of the CR (Continuing Resolution) to fund the government overall. Dickinson: If government shuts down, only political appointees can work. We’ve revectored to an agile development methodology. We got new leadership coming in. confusing I.B.M.,

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

PayPal, under the leadership of David Marcus and Bill Scott, re-defining and re-engineering itself by embracing Lean Startup to improve the product experience. Struggling to explain the successes and failures of those companies, I discussed principles like continuous deployment, customer development, and a hyper-accelerated form of agile.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

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. Including accessibility and purposeful inclusion into Austin’s Smart City Strategic builds a more trusted governance model.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

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?

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

After seeing the results of 500+ teams through the I-Corps, the NSF now offers all teams who’ve received government funding to start a company an introduction to building a Lean Startup. small businesses to turn Government-funded research into commercial businesses. Here’s Edmund’s description of the I-Corps Lite program. Eleven U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Agile is widely using in software development and is especially suitable for projects where requirements are uncertain at the start. Black Belt training builds on these techniques but includes project management skills such as meeting management, team management, business cases and leadership skills. Governance themes.

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