Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

While all the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ), Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, each of their journeys was unique. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence community or other government agencies. Stay tuned.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Businesses also demand flexibility, choice, agility, and cost-effectiveness from these enabling technologies to ensure that business capabilities can change with demand, market, trade mission, and more. The creation of Unix operating systems prompted a standardization of hardware and software into more focused and manageable systems.

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Technical Review Software Review Technology Architecture 118

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Mark Raheja, founding partner at August , a consultancy focused on organizational development, will be speaking as part of the enterprise learning track at Lean Startup Week about agility at scale. In thinking about the future of corporate agility and management, what modern practices are most vital to today’s leaders?

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 9, 2024

Corporate governance expert Nygina Mills discusses the critical role of compliance in building resilient businesses that can withstand regulatory and market changes. Effective compliance programs not only detect and prevent violations but also position a company to react agilely to legislative changes.

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Artificial Inteligence Management Technical Review Framework 78

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Some are strategic peers, some are near peers in specific areas, some are threats as non-state disrupters operating with no rules. Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. These Horizons also apply to government agencies and other large organizations.

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Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator 242

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. And this idea of user-defined operating picture is with us today. Warfighters Need to Be Demanding Customers.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2024

Seemingly overnight, disruption has allowed challengers to threaten the dominance of companies and government agencies as many of their existing systems have now been leapfrogged. The same holds true for Government organizations, albeit with more serious consequences. It’s a textbook case of the Innovators Dilemma.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Lean was designed to inform the founders’ vision while they operated frugally at speed. And government agencies find themselves being disrupted by adversaries unencumbered by legacy systems, policies and history. Both companies and government agencies struggle with how to deliver innovation at speed. The result?

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Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 16, 2024

Sustainability reporting, particularly about environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria, has burgeoned as a fundamental vehicle through which companies can reflect their operations’ social responsibility and commitment to sustainable development practices.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Framework Government 52

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Most startups have been competent in managing their cash burn by determining how they spend and utilizing government subsidies to meet their goals. Many of these businesses operated on shoestring budgets and tiny margins, which the pandemic’s challenges all but obliterated. Adaptability goes hand in hand with speed.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

An existing company or government organization is primarily organized for day-to-day execution of its current business processes or mission. In reality for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed a process from start to deployment. Use Cases/ Concept of Operations. Legal issues.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 21, 2024

Automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) are revolutionizing how companies operate. Automation reduces costs and enhances efficiency, while AI and ML provide deeper insights into customer behavior and operational performance.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research. 2) The agile "happy place". Agile teams sprint when value is known, implementation is low risk. and business transformation.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 31, 2018

We’re super lean and agile,” says Ortiz Shields, who works with two researchers in the city’s Office of Design & Delivery. They also make recommendations regarding service updates and improvements to existing business processes , like hiring multilingual staff and extending or shifting operating hours. That’s okay.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2012

Smart entrepreneurs are making changes now, to be more agile in defining strategy, making organizational changes, and analyzing markets for change. Look for new volatility, caused by inflation or deflation, new government regulations, and of course new technology and even more determined competitors. Proactive pursuit of new markets.

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Agile Government Leadership Revenue 235

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

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. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Jeff served in the U.S.

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Oakland Asia Lean Video 314

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Governments adopting the use of the Cloud. In addition to small businesses, cloud adoption by governments has been growing in the Asia region. This migration to the cloud helps to meet their operational needs, as well as to reduce costs and increase agility and efficiency. Content Delivery Networks (CDN) Join the Fray.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2011

Smart entrepreneurs are making changes now, to be more agile in defining strategy, making organizational changes, and analyzing markets for change. Look for new volatility, caused by inflation or deflation, new government regulations, and of course new technology and even more determined competitors. Proactive pursuit of new markets.

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Agile Government Leadership Revenue 244

Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

These boards are more agile and can make decisions quickly when necessary. Technology Supports Success Volunteer board members are dedicated to the mission and vision of their organization, even as their work as a governance team grows in difficulty and complexity. Members may need to take on several roles.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review Security 52

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. The SCO imagines new, often unexpected and game-changing uses of existing government and commercial systems.).

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Technology China Agile Acquisition 420

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2020

Due to the restrictions imposed by different governments, many have been relying on digital platforms for their needs. Similar to data, the operational applications run on mainframes are also valuable. In today’s quest for agile and flexible platforms, the mainframe is seen by many as an aging, slow, and dying system.

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Marketing Open Source eCommerce Technical Review 98

Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

When organizations are small (startups, small teams in companies and government agencies) early employees share a mission (why they come to work, what they need to do while they are at work, and how they will know they have succeeded). I wasn’t surprised. The first reaction from my CEO was, “That’s why you’re running the department.”

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

This was our first step in fostering a more agile, responsive and resilient, approach to national security in the 21st century. As each new technology created new military systems, new operational concepts were developed (bows and arrows were used differently than rocks, etc.). Fast forward to today.

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Artificial Inteligence Technology North Korea Asia 379

Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2017

I shared my current thinking about innovation in companies and government agencies. 08:18 Agile Development and Lean – Eric Ries. 13:58 Startups operate with alacrity, agility and at times a death wish. 27:30 We can’t afford to have our government go out of business. It’s worth a listen.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

This is critical since the government is moving toward a speedier payment system, which will reduce the time it takes for victims to get compensation. So, we can expect that businesses and workplaces will keep on adjusting and readjusting their operations to accommodate the mandates and protocols that their respective governments will impose.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2024

Business Bridge Loans Explained Business bridge loans are designed as interim financing, which means that they provide a form of short-term capital to business owners to cover operational expenses, carry out expansion initiatives, or capitalize on growth strategies.

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Bridge Financing Startup Finance Revenue 111

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. It doesn’t take equity and just has a small fee that varies by city ($140 to $299), to cover event operations and expenses.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2020

They operated this way because their existing business models didn’t allow them to initially profit from those opportunities – so they ignored them – and continued to chase higher profitability in more-demanding segments. Innovation Theater) in companies and government organizations, rather than creating actual innovation.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

8-Stay agile. 2020 was a year of many lessons, but if I had to pick one takeaway, it would be the importance of agility. There were many changes throughout the past year, and most required businesses to change the way that they operate over night! Thanks to Deeanne Akerson, Kindred Bravely ! #8-Stay Photo Credit: Jimmy Chebat.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2010

Smart entrepreneurs are making changes now, to be more agile in defining strategy, making organizational changes, and analyzing markets for change. Look for new volatility, caused by inflation or deflation, new government regulations, and of course new technology and even more determined competitors. Proactive pursuit of new markets.

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Agile Government Leadership Revenue 121

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Startups need to embrace this shift by investing in technology that enhances their operations and improves the customer experience. By leveraging these emerging technologies, startups can streamline operations, gain valuable insights, cut down massively on business expenses and enhance customer experiences.”

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

With Lean LaunchPad, we were going to toss teaching the business plan aside and try to teach students a completely new, hands-on approach to starting companies – one which combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots. Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering).

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

Since most of our lives are governed by maintenance, innovation becomes a form of deviating from the norm and creating constructive conflict. The closing panel on Day 1 felt like the start of a witty punchline, “A startup founder, a government official, and a venture capitalist walk into a room…”?—?what

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Steve Blank

MAY 23, 2016

Shortly after that, I met Pete Newell , the retired head of the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force – one of the best Lean and agile organizations in the military – and I met Joe Felter an ex Special Forces Colonel. government is still operating like a 20 th century organization while our adversaries are operating at 21 st century speed.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 7, 2020

While the government in nations like the UK moved swiftly to offer various financial support schemes, when these are withdrawn in the coming months and businesses are left to their own devices, it’s unclear which will sink or swim. To say that the Covid-19 pandemic has been challenging for businesses is a massive understatement.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Highlights from the show Jen describes her background in government-tech partnerships. (2:52) 12:44) A look at the three waves of requests coming from government. (14:06)

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

Key Takeaway: Digital transformation requires organizations to rewire their processes and operations, leveraging new technologies to achieve value. Every year inbound brings together leaders across business, sales, marketing, customer success, operations, and more. 07:01): And a real fundamental change in the operating model.

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