Is Outcome-Based Planning being passed by Design Thinking, Lean Startup(TM), and the other Innovation chatter that we see? This focus is certainly deserving and a necessary component in today’s marketplace. Where the strength of an Outcome approach takes place is in understanding your customers, markets and most of all the people that you influence. Outcome-Based Read More …
In an Outcome-Based mapping approach, we do not try to reach out immediately to the beneficiaries or all the people/organizations that may have an interest in our product or service. We reach out to people/organizations that we can influence. This is quite different from the Lean StartupTM approach where we are trying to find product/market Read More …
This year-old startup, ApRecs, is trying to qualify for the Chase Mission Main Street Grant. They are on a quest to bring technology to the Agriculture Industry, and specifically to Tree Fruit Growers. They would like to accelerate product development that will put what is developed in Washington State as the standard for the global Read More …
Open Innovation, Co-Creation, Co-Producing are practically buzz words in the social media sphere. I do agree, a collaborative thinking process needs to become part of every organization. It will take a strategic plan and effort by organizations to move products/services into an area that facilitates collaborative thinking and eventually, co-creation platforms. You cannot wake up Read More …
My interview with Bill Aulet, 24 Steps to Successful Entrepreneurship discusses his process described in his new book, Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup. You can miss the podcast, not read the eBook below but if you are serious about Entrepreneurship, I highly recommend the book. The book is already in its 2nd Read More …
No, it’s not The 4-Hour Workweek. Entrepreneurship is hard, you have to love it to be successful. Iterations, Prototypes, Experiments are all things that are not easy to do. A salient quote on twitter the other day; RT @Steve_Lockstep: If “Experimentation Is The New Planning” I hope non-scientists know how much planning goes into good Read More …