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

Steve Blank

Approvals tended to be based on who had the best demo and/or slides or lobbied the hardest. Instead of having a committee vet ideas, they needed a process that operated with speed and urgency, and innovators and stakeholders who curated and prioritized their own problems/idea/technology. As the head of the U.S. Lessons Learned.

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

Steve Blank

Together Pete, Joe Felter and I created Hacking for Defense , a nationwide program to teach university students how use Lean methodologies to solve defense and national security problems. Solution 4 : What we have been missing is an innovation pipeline focused on deployment not demos.

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Twitter Link Roundup #58 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

50 Advanced HTML5 Demos to show It’s Power – [link]. Can User Experience Designers be Lean? Curating A Conference: Inside @TechCocktail Startup Mixology – [link]. Designing Hyperlinks: Tips and Best Practices – [link]. Review of Popular Web Font Embedding Services – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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7 Landing Page Examples & User Journey Breakdowns to Swipe for Inspiration

ConversionXL

Here’s the view for service teams: And for sales teams: The next section leans a little more on social proof. This interactive demo of the product’s features solves a common barrier to app user retention and prolonged engagement. In addition to the interactive demo content, they also offer a 14-day free trial.

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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. Department of Defense by adopting Lean Methodology inside their agency. The NGA has adopted Lean Innovation methods to make this happen. Their goal is to integrate these techniques into their own Lean innovation processes.

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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. Department of Defense by adopting Lean Methodology inside their agency. The NGA has adopted Lean Innovation methods to make this happen. Their goal is to integrate these techniques into their own Lean innovation processes.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. And the Lean LaunchPad class I developed at Stanford was the first such class. I believe the analogy is identical for entrepreneurship.The capstone entrepreneurship classes like NSF I-Corps or a Lean LaunchPad class, are for those who have already decided they want to be entrepreneurs.

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