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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

Hacking for Defense is a new course at Stanford’s Engineering School in the Spring of 2016. Join a select cross-disciplinary class that will put you hands-on with the masters of lean innovation to help bring rapid-fire innovative solutions to address threats to our national security. North Korea.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

In the 21st century you need a scorecard to keep track of the threats: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, ISIS in Yemen/Libya/Philippines, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, hackers for hire, etc. The Lean Innovation process is a self-regulating, evidence-based innovation pipeline. That approach doesn’t work anymore.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War

Steve Blank

I’m teaching my first non-lean start up class in a decade at Stanford next week; Technology, Innovation and Modern War : Keeping America’s Edge in an Era of Great Power Competition. — Why This Course? Bookending the class will be two past secretaries of Defense – Ash Carter and Jim Mattis.