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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

70% of Africa’s population is under the age of 25 shaping one of the largest untapped talent pools in the world. What are the drivers behind these figures and why Africa is so polarized when it comes to skills development and unemployment rates? Scrum, Agile, Product Management. Project/ Product Management.

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Solving the Innovator’s Dilemma – Customer Development in a Big Company

Steve Blank

We spent two days of analyzing and exploring their customer discovery visits just completed across South America, Africa and Asia. Followers of the Customer Development process know that you can’t start selling until you have transformed product, customer and other hypotheses into a validated business model and sales roadmap.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. and the U.K.

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No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 billion dollar mistake.

Steve Blank

It would cover every city, town and square inch of the earth from ships in the middle of the Arctic Ocean to the jungles of Africa to the remote mountain peaks of the Himalayas. With an out-of-this-world business plan. But Iridium’s business model assumptions were fixed like it was still 1990. Lessons Learned.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Steve Blank

These include the continued pursuit of weapons of mass destruction by states and non-state groups, the outbreak of internal conflict across the Middle East and in parts of Africa, the most significant flow of refugees since World War II, and a changing climate that is beginning to affect both developed and developing countries.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Steve Blank

These include the continued pursuit of weapons of mass destruction by states and non-state groups, the outbreak of internal conflict across the Middle East and in parts of Africa, the most significant flow of refugees since World War II, and a changing climate that is beginning to affect both developed and developing countries.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

Though it has happened elsewhere and usually in places where there was a need (Rural Africa). ” I think the crux of SQUARE’s business model is obviating the need for merchants to have an acquirer account with a bank. I too originally thought that this industry would eventually come to life, but sadly it has not.

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