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

Steve Blank

They accomplished their goal, but at a huge, unanticipated cost: the processes and committees they designed ended up strangling innovation. 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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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Weeks 8 and 9

Steve Blank

And they’re getting a handle on what it costs to build a company to deliver it. Two Items for the Bucket List. Two bucket list items got ahead of my blogging so I’ve combined the final two lecture weeks of the class into this one blog post. Because of the embedded presentations this post is best viewed on the website.).

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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

The end result is often that change can happen but it is going to come at the cost of disruption and difficulty.”. The process starts by collecting agency-wide ideas and/or customer problems, collecting a group insight, and sorts which problems are important enough to pursue. Putting lean principles into NGA’s acquisition practices.

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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

The end result is often that change can happen but it is going to come at the cost of disruption and difficulty.”. The process starts by collecting agency-wide ideas and/or customer problems, collecting a group insight, and sorts which problems are important enough to pursue. Putting lean principles into NGA’s acquisition practices.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. Our mission is to increase the number of female founders of technology startups. Tweet By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced). What can Women 2.0