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Innovation System Thinking on a Sunday! What, no roast or glass of wine? Later.

Paul Hobcraft

The practice of lean thinking, design thinking, visual thinking have increasingly started to dominate our “innovation thinking.” Complex adaptive systems are yet another story as I attempted some time back, actually in 2012 and it still sits here in my pile of things to connect up. It does not need to be.

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Commander in Chief of Innovation

KindlingApp

Established in 2012, this program pairs innovators from the private sector with leaders in the federal government, towards the goal of innovating for specific government agencies and initiatives. To name a few: The Presidential Innovation Fellows Program. Their partner agency, 18F, focuses on improving access to government data.

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Why Corporations Need “Coopetition” with Startups

KindlingApp

Startup swami Eric Ries’ essential book The Lean Startup defines a startup as “a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty”, which implies an essential element of innovation. So where do these business models intersect?