Bill Grossso on Startups after AI
Bill Grosso discusses the role of startups after AI becomes pervasive in the business ecosystem and the emerging opportunities that will create.
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Why Spreadsheets Still Rule Finance and Why That’s a Problem
Martha Ryan’s blog post offers a practical look at why spreadsheets still dominate finance—and the hidden risks they create. A must-read for CFOs, analysts, and anyone relying on data-driven decisions every day.
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April K. Mills on “Accelerate Results”
April K. Mills will shares some simple tactics we can all use to accelerate our results.
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Jeff Allison: How to Drive Innovation and Meet Commitments
Innovation requires experimentation that allows for the possibility of failure but the whole point of creating a program commitment process is to avoid failure.
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“From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932” by David Hounshell
In “From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932” David Hounshell offers a well researched perspective on the evolution of manufacturing methods in Great Britain and the United States.
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The Messy Order of Robust Communities
Robust communities have a messy order: they have to evolve so they cannot be designed along neat hierarchical lines. Whether you are planning a supplier ecosystem or a user group one marker for robustness is messy order: there is some organization but it’s not cleanly hierarchical.
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Finding Product-Market Fit in Industrial IoT and Space Startups by Lee Garverick
Lee Garverick presents a three-part process to assist entrepreneurs and leaders in achieving product-market fit in space and IIoT markets.
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Six Insights for Intrapreneurs from “Disorganize”
Jonathan Anthony promises 99 actionable ideas for insights for intrapreneurs in his book “Disorganize.” Here are my top six.
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Chalk Talk: How Buildings Learn
A chalk talk on Stewart Brand’s model for how six layers in a building change at different rates from his book “How Buildings Learn.”
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Angel Rampy on Influence Skills for Technical People
What skills do you need to influence the way other people think? Angel Rampy, business coach at Success Through Learning, covers the different levels from which we influence moving us from “telling” to “collaborating”. She shares tips for strengthen our ability to influence others. Here are a couple of interesting video snippets from her
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Three Insights from Dr. Edward Baker’s “Scoring a Whole in One”
This post explores three insights from Dr. Edward Baker’s “Scoring a Whole in One.” First, individuals must understand the enterprise context they operate in; second, leaders must serve and connect; and third, practice is necessary for improvement but does not lead to perfection.
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Etienne Garbugli on Opportunities: Finding New Products
Etienne Garbugli looks at finding product opportunities, and how entrepreneurs deliver value and gain a foothold inside businesses.
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Markers That Startups Can Use to Identify Early Adopters
Sean Murphy recently explained to a client his perspective on change agents inside a business and the signals that he looks for to identify early adopters.
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Start with Mindset with Ash Maurya
Ash Maurya makes the case that entrepreneurs must start with mindset to drive the skill development that will create traction and success.
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Scale by Understanding Your Value Stream: Slides and Video Recap
Martha Ryan and Terry Frazier offered a briefing on how to “Scale by Understanding Your Value Stream” at the Lean Culture Meetup on Feb-25-2021. Here is a recap of the event that includes slides and video.
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Cultivate Formal Controls, Informal Collaboration, and Value Creation Networks
A simple view of organization structure is management and workers. The reality is three structures: formal controls, informal collaboration, and value creation networks.
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Intrapreneur Mindset and Key Skills
An intrapreneur is an employee who adopts the mindset of an entrepreneur to foster innovation inside of a larger firm. This blog post outlines key skills that an intrapreneur must master to identify useful inventions and get them adopted inside a firm to bring new value to customers.
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Mapping Capability Development to New Product Design and Delivery
This is a first pass at development dependency “pinwheel” model for intrapreneurs fostering new capability development and executives adjusting a product roadmap for development risk.
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Jeff Allison: How To Blend New Capability and New Product Development
Jeff Allison offers a June-1-2017 briefing on how to blend new capability development and new product development. Innovation requires experimentation that allows for the possibility of failure but the whole point of creating a program commitment process is to avoid failure.
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Innovation Inside an Organization Requires Balancing Priorities
It always seems simpler to be able to start with a blank slate, and even better to be given just one project so that you can focus, but the reality is that innovation inside an organization requires balancing priorities.
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