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What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many

Steve Blank

was fighting Al-Qaeda and ISIS, China built new weapons and developed new operational concepts to negate U.S. This does not bode well for our treaty allies, Japan, the Philippines, and South Korea. war planners thought about a future war with Japan. Unfortunately for us Japan didn’t adhere to our war plan. naval warfare.

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Empower Operational Employees to Innovate

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

The Benefits of Innovation Training for Operational Employees. Why is it that organizations don’t invest in training operational employees? Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. And management of operations is all about control.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

At times this means startups operate at speeds so fast they appear to be a blur to government agencies. It’s not that these companies are smarter than Defense Department employees, but they operate with different philosophies, different product development methodologies, and with different constraints. So, the question is: What’s next?

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The Firewall Is Dead – What Can Businesses Do To Protect And Secure Their Brands?

YoungUpstarts

by David Nagrosst, head of sales for Cyxtera Technologies in Asia Pacific, Australia and Japan. Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. Without a doubt, the firewall era has come to an end. The onset of death.

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Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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22 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

Hearpreneur

Shopify swiftly came in with solutions that allowed these firms to turn their point-of-sale terminals into e-commerce storefronts and begin online operations the same day. This corporation is regarded for its most innovative products because they revolutionized the game of PC operating systems. that offers them a competitive advantage.

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How to Solve Problems in Your Business: Kanban, Kaizen and Scrum

Up and Running

To get things rolling, we’ll turn to the industrious nation of Japan. The word kaizen literally means “improvement,” and it’s another word that we’ve borrowed from our Eastern counterparts in China and Japan. Building an agile schedule is an important part of reacting to those variables. See Also: Want Your Team Engaged?

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