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These Five Principles Will Accelerate Innovation

Steve Blank

Pete is now CEO of BMNT, a company that delivers innovation solutions and processes for governments. A Navy team recently sourced 80 problems, then curated down to one priority problem to solve. The power of Lean Methodology is supercharged when discovery begins with a well-curated and prioritized problem.

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

Steve Blank

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. There’s a much better way. Three common mistakes.

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How to Stop Playing “Target Market Roulette”: A new addition to the Lean toolset

Steve Blank

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doing things. government’s open innovation and crowdsourcing competition. The NGA, an organization within the U.S.

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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doing things. government’s open innovation and crowdsourcing competition. The NGA, an organization within the U.S.

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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

The end result was a truly ambitious, unique, and international set of curated Wicked problems. Startups vs. Large Companies vs. Governments Innovation at Speed for Horizon 1, 2 and 3 (Managing the Portfolio across Horizons) What is Systems Thinking? What is unique about Wicked Problems? How to map stakeholders and systems’ dynamics?

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

It combines the same Lean Startup Methodology used by the National Science Foundation to commercialize science, with the rapid problem sourcing and curation methodology developed on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq by Colonel Pete Newell and the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force. Goals for the Hacking for Defense Class.