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YoungUpstarts
APRIL 30, 2021
For startups on a budget, government auctions offer incredible deals on vehicles and other useful equipment your business might need. The post How Startups Can Benefit From Government Auctions appeared first on Young Upstarts. Thinking Aloud government auctions Greg Berry
Our Own Start-up
JANUARY 20, 2023
The post Bitcoin: Economics, Technology, Governance and The Future first appeared on Our Own Startup. Special Feature Bitcoin digital asset Economics of bitcoin future of bitcoin Governance of bitcoin Technology of bitcoin
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Board Effect
JANUARY 15, 2020
Best practices for digital governance are just beginning to evolve and boards that lack the necessary IT expertise may fail to recognize and abide by digital governance best practices. What Is Digital Governance? The Purpose of Digital Governance.
Steve Blank
APRIL 28, 2014
He’s helping city government in Philadelphia become more innovative by applying Lean startup methods and Philadelphia University’s innovation curriculum. I asked him to share an update on his work on teaching lean techniques to local governments. Our goal is to foster innovation principles and practice in local government by changing the way government employees think about innovation and act on their ideas. Building a Government Innovation Curriculum.
Board Effect
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Just as healthcare organizations struggled with how to adapt to mergers and meet the evolving needs of their communities, COVID-19 struck with a vengeance forcing changes in governance in healthcare. The current climate in healthcare governance begs further questions.
Board Effect
OCTOBER 3, 2022
We’ll look at what has changed in governance in higher education post-pandemic and best practices for governance in higher education moving forward. How COVID Has Changed Governance. Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG).
Board Effect
JULY 19, 2021
Whether you take a broad or a narrow approach to the difference between governance and management, the differences are specific and distinct. The Role of Governance. The board of directors takes on the role of governance. Board and Governance. Governance Skills.
Board Effect
DECEMBER 16, 2019
These shifts have necessitated major changes to the hospital governing board structure as we’ve known it in the past. Today’s boards and managers are struggling to keep up with the changes and adjust their governing board structures to meet the needs of their organizations.
Board Effect
MARCH 15, 2022
How to Improve Governance for Your Hospital Board. Hospital governance encompasses many different areas, including audit, education, compliance, regulation, security, and education. Good governance anticipates problems and develops processes to arrive at solutions in a timely manner.
Board Effect
JANUARY 29, 2020
Businesses and other organizations have an overall governance corresponding strategy. There can be different types of sub-governance frameworks within a main governance strategy. Governance refers to how groups or individuals interact and who has the decision-making authority.
thebarefootvc
FEBRUARY 19, 2018
As the price of bitcoin rose to over $11,000 this morning (from lows near $6000 two weeks ago), governance was a key theme over the past week. The Ethereum community is grappling with its own governance roadmap, with an active debate currently underway on how to resolve issues of lost funds due to hacks or vulnerabilities in smart contracts. The post Governance appeared first on The Barefoot VC.
Board Effect
DECEMBER 14, 2020
Digital processes for governance practices allow nonprofits to enhance their services, reduce costs, and improve the quality of life for people within their communities. 7 Key Steps to Digitizing Governance. The post 7 Key Steps to Digitizing Governance appeared first on BoardEffect.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 21, 2015
I’ve spent this year working with corporations and government agencies trying to adapt and adopt Lean Methodologies. In doing so I’ve learned a ton from lots of people. I’ve summarized my learnings in this blog post , and here and here and here and put it all together in the presentation below. if you can’t see the presentation click here. But the biggest surprise for me was getting schooled on how extremely difficult it is to be an innovator inside a company of executors.
ReadWriteStart
MARCH 11, 2020
Due to their unique oversight, governments have a surplus of data at their fingertips. Here are the facts about AI startups needing data , and how that helps governments. Governments are replicating the trend to make data more accessible all over the world.
Board Effect
MARCH 24, 2021
Good governance practices ensure that your board can handle anything that comes its way. That being said, how can you be sure your board is practicing good governance? To that end, is your nonprofit board equipped with the right tools to support governance best practices?
Board Effect
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Along with that comes the responsibility for managing it appropriately and according to IT governance best practices, which is a relatively new issue for boards to address. Your initial attempts at governing information technology will certainly feel overwhelming.
YFS Magazine
OCTOBER 18, 2022
YFS Magazine YFS Magazine The findings of a 6-year study of continuous improvement in government comprised of 77 public-sector organizations and over 1,000 interviews were surprising.
Board Effect
AUGUST 19, 2020
Whether they have years of board experience or whether it’s their first board director position, all board members benefit from governance training. Continual training in governance makes average and good boards great. Why Board Members Need Governance Training.
Board Effect
JULY 14, 2021
Nonprofit board governance serves two very important purposes – fulfilling your nonprofit’s mission and ensuring its sustainability. Separately and together, nonprofit boards and governance play essential roles in the nonprofit sector, and it’s important to note the distinction between them.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 15, 2019
The type of disruption most companies and government agencies are facing is a once-in-every-few-centuries event. Ultimately, companies and government agencies need to stop doing this or they will fail. If they were a commercial company, they figured out product/market fit; or if a government organization, it focused on solution/mission fit. By process I mean all the tools that allow companies and government to scale repeatable execution.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
And from then on, innovation in semiconductors, supercomputers, and software would be driven by startups, not the government. Today, every government agency, service branch, and combatant command is adopting innovation activities (hackathons, design thinking classes, innovation workshops, et al.) The Government Can’t Act Like a Startup. The government isn’t a bigger version of a startup and can’t act like a startup does.
Board Effect
JULY 5, 2021
With philanthropic giving at an all-time high, it’s generating a new sense of freedom for nonprofits, allowing them to reimagine governance like never before. Nonprofits: Ready, Set, Reimagine Governance. The future of nonprofit governance has the potential to look very bright.
Board Effect
JUNE 24, 2019
The duties and responsibilities of the governance committee are important enough that boards need to assign them to someone. The best and easiest way to do this is by forming a governance committee. Governance committees are sometimes called nominating committees or board development committees. The basic role of a governance committee is to ensure that organizations have a qualified board to oversee them and plan for current and future needs.
Board Effect
MARCH 29, 2021
Has your board taken stock of the ramifications of nonprofit board governance mistakes? In light of ensuring good nonprofit oversight , let’s look at 10 nonprofit board governance mistakes and how to avoid them. Board members aren’t aware of the laws governing nonprofits.
Board Effect
MARCH 22, 2021
Service to the public and accountability go hand-in-hand, and that means good governance is paramount. What Are the Dangers of Poor Nonprofit Governance? Poor governance ultimately leads to failure for nonprofits, and the sense of security that the general public needs will weaken.
Board Effect
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Every year, federal and state governments offer various grants to nonprofit organizations. A significant award can be yours if you know where to look and how to write winning applications for nonprofit government grants. Government Grants for Nonprofit Organizations: Who Is Eligible?
Board Effect
MARCH 4, 2020
Boards need to be able to see risk and uncertainty as an inevitable part of both innovation and governance. Not all boards can handle these issues on their own accord and that’s the right time to considering working with a governance consultant.
Board Effect
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
If you’re looking for an established, easy process for corporate governance , you’re likely to spend hours of futile time looking for it and be disappointed altogether. That doesn’t mean that it’s not worthwhile to understand what good corporate governance is or to work toward achieving it.
Version One Ventures
JUNE 16, 2020
The Seattle-based company provides an online marketplace for business-to-government commerce – it connects local and national suppliers with government procurement officers. . It should come as no surprise that government procurement is riddled with inefficiency.
Board Effect
MARCH 1, 2021
The growth of nonprofits, along with concern over how they’re being governed has prompted greater scrutiny over charitable organizations in general. Nonprofit boards face plenty of risks when they don’t have a full grasp on what’s required of them in the areas of governance and compliance.
Board Effect
JULY 1, 2019
Good governance encompasses an array of issues. When corporate and organizational issues are going well, we tend to give credit to good governance practices. On the flip side, we also tend to blame poor governance practices when companies and organizations aren’t doing well. Whether those beliefs are accurate or not, the fact is that good governance helps organizations and businesses run well today and in the future. What Is the Purpose of a Governance Committee?
YFS Magazine
MAY 7, 2021
Here's how startups can benefit from bidding in government auctions. Grow Operations business equipment business operations business supplies government auctions GSA auctionsDo you need to purchase company vehicles or business equipment?
deal architect
APRIL 11, 2012
The DOJ is suing Apple and several book publishers over e-Book pricing. In a word, I am ambivalent. In my new book, I have a whole chapter on business model innovation facilitated by technology. Here is an extract: It was. Industry Commentary
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 30, 2012
TLDR: Two things: 1) Uncle Sam (and I) want you to be an entrepreneur inside the US Federal Government as a White House Innovation Fellow. They wanted to tell me about work they were doing to make the federal government more entrepreneurial. Aneesh is there again, recently retired from government. His stories and specific examples of "lean government" in action left the audience with a simple message: if they can do Lean Startup in government, what's my excuse?
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 1, 2011
When I read policy papers by government organizations trying to replicate the lessons from the valley, I’m struck how they seem to miss some basic lessons. Regions building a cluster around scalable startups fail to understand that a government agency simply giving money to entrepreneurs who want it is an exercise in failure. Any government that starts public financing entrepreneurship better have a plan to get out of it by building a private VC industry.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 4, 2017
Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” By which they mean: Without stupid rules that assume employees are dumb or evil, without everything taking ten times longer than it should, without wall-to-wall meetings, without resorting to hiring anything less than the top 1% of the talent pool, and so on.
Board Effect
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
Governance is a term that most people have some familiarity with, but they don’t necessarily know what it means. Good governance and good management aren’t synonymous. The regular practice of good governance principles leads to good outcomes in governance. What Is Governance Management? Governance management encourages efficient use of resources and accountability for the stewardship over those resources. Why Is Governance Management Important?
The Startup Magazine
DECEMBER 1, 2018
Consider this breakdown of government loan programs. FHA loans are one of the most commonly used types of government-backed programs. The government also offers loans designed to help develop rural areas. The post FHA Loans – How Government Loan Programs Work appeared first on The Startup Magazine. Using a home loan can often help you have capital available for your startup.
deal architect
FEBRUARY 21, 2015
The general presumption in the enterprise software marketplace is customers stay loyal for lifetimes – the more realistic thinking, of course, is they stay loyal for long periods, but not that long. When I was researching SAP Nation, I was. Industry Commentary SAP Nation Book
Board Effect
JANUARY 13, 2021
The current climate forces higher education boards to focus on the issue of the shared governance model and how it might serve to give administrators and staff members the authority and control to save their institutions. With that in mind, the view of shared governance is murky at best.
Board Effect
JANUARY 6, 2020
What is governance and what does good governance mean for today’s boards of directors? Good governance of today accounts for longstanding governance practices, as well as modern governance principles. What Are the Components of Good Governance?
Board Effect
AUGUST 29, 2022
Healthcare boards are challenged by many governance issues, and the health of seniors is one of them. var dimensionValueR = '3.219.201.222, 3.219.201.222'; ga('set', 'dimension12', dimensionValueR); 6 Governance Challenges for Healthcare Boards. BoardEffect.
Board Effect
JULY 11, 2019
The concept of shared governance in the higher education space came about during the 1960s, which was a time when colleges began to modernize many of their processes. Today, the meaning of shared governance has become distorted. If you talk with various faculty members, they may tell you that they believe they are responsible for governance. Shared governance is decision-making authority that incorporates input from staff, faculty and sometimes special interest groups.
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