Learning Through Reflection
“Sometimes, you have to look back in order to understand the things that lie ahead.” We just finished the 6th annual Lean LaunchPad class. This year we made a small but substantive addition to way we...
View ArticleHacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean...
Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first...
View ArticleThere are 145 Entrepreneurship Courses at Stanford
Stanford is an incubator with dorms Download the full text file with links to the courses here. http://www.slideshare.net/sblank/stanford-entreprenuership-classes
View ArticleMachine Learning Meets the Lean Startup
We just finished our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley’s engineering school where many of the teams embedded machine learning technology into their products. It struck me as I watched the teams try...
View ArticleHacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department
“Being in Silicon Valley, a lot of my friends want to work for Google or Apple, but this class showed me that the problems in public service were even more challenging and rewarding. I used to watch...
View ArticleInnovation – something both parties can agree on
On the last day Congress was in session in 2016, Democrats and Republicans agreed on a bill that increased innovation and research for the country. For me, seeing Congress pass this bill, the American...
View ArticleDon’t let process distract you from finding the strategy
When you’re up to your neck in alligators, don’t forget the goal was to drain the swamp. I love teaching because I learn something new every class. This time it was, “Don’t let process distract you...
View ArticleHerding Cats – Using Lean to Work Together
When Colonel Peter Newell headed up the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF) he used lean methods on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to provide immediate technology solutions to urgent problems....
View ArticleHacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations
We just finished our second Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. Eight teams presented their Lessons Learned presentations. Hacking for Defense is a battle-tested problem-solving methodology that...
View ArticleWe Have A Moral Obligation
I was in Boston and was interviewed by The Growth Show about my current thinking about innovation in companies and government agencies.The interviewer was great and managed to get me to summarize...
View ArticleThe Lean LaunchPad Class: It’s the same, but different
It’s the same, but different We just finished the 8th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. The team presentations are at the end of this post. It’s hard to imagine, but only a decade ago, the...
View ArticleWho Ever Thought? The Lean Educators Summit
It’s been almost a decade since we first started teaching the Lean Methodology. It’s remade entrepreneurship education, startup practice and innovation in companies and the government. But in all that...
View ArticleWhat Can A Startup Do in 5 days? Watch this
With a terrific crew of instructors, TA’s, and mentors, we successfully concluded Session 1 of our Hacking 4 Recovery summer series – with 20 teams sharing their final presentations last night. Slides...
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Teaching Lean Innovation in the Pandemic
Remote education in the pandemic has been hard for everyone. Hard for students having to deal with a variety of remote instructional methods. Hard for parents with K through 12 students at home trying...
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Hacking 4 Recovery – Time to Take A Shot
Rise Up “Let’s do something to help with the pandemic.” In April, with the economy crashing, and the East Coast in lockdown, I heard this from Stanford instructors Tom Bedecarre and Todd Basche, both...
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Educators Summit: Lessons from Teaching in the Pandemic
SAVE THE DATE for the Lean Innovation Educators Summit: Lessons from Teaching in the Pandemic July 24, 10-noon Pacific, 1-3pm Eastern, 6-8pm London As educators the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged us...
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The Educators Summit: Adapting to the COVID Economy
In July 2020, 400+ educators gathered online to discuss and share best practices for Lean education in the virtual environment. We learned a ton. And we’re going to do it again. Join me, Jerry Engel,...
View ArticleLean LaunchPad – For Deep Science and Technology
We just finished the 11th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford — our first version focused on deep science and technology. I’ve always thought of the class as a minimal viable product – testing new...
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The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught
This article first appeared in Poets and Quants Revolutions start by overturning the status quo. By the end of the 20th century, case studies and business plans had reached an evolutionary dead-end...
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Lean Meets Wicked Problems
This post previously appeared in Poets & Quants. I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class. In this case Wicked doesn’t mean morally...
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