Bryan Alexandros

Mar 30, 2021

The Consultancy Pivot and The Riddle of the End Game

What we assumed only had the ramifications of the common flu actually brought world economies into a recession. Clientele delayed projects, suffocated the scope, or cancelled them full stop. High-value engagements that were usually held in-person were now reserved for “recovery” and “recalibration in the new normal.” …

Entrepreneurship

11 min read

The Consultancy Pivot and The Riddle of the End Game

Oct 16, 2018

Is Lean Startup Dying?

On GE, Failures, and Bringing a Knife to a Gunfight — If there was a Hype Cycle for all these methodologies and theories, you would find LS is sliding down the far end of the slope. Steve Blank addressed the topic of the Lean Startup being dead in his September 2018 blog post. If you’re crunched for time, here’s his conclusion: …

Lean Startup

8 min read

Jul 24, 2018

How to Use the Three Horizons

I. Introduction II. Brief History III. A Deep Dive into the Horizons 1. Apply the 70/20/10 Rule 2. Define Your Innovation Frontier (IF) 3. Go Beyond the Technology and Think Capability 4. Hold Independent Innovation Tournaments, Bounties, and Hackathons for Each Horizon 5. Plot Your Current Portfolio of Products and…

Innovation

16 min read

How to Use the Three Horizons for Future Sensemaking

Jun 4, 2018

Design Thinking is Bullshit? An Expired Argument

My nonprofit, military, academia, and defense accelerator colleagues might’ve discovered a peculiar talk in their social feeds titled Design Thinking is Bullshit by Pentagram partner Natasha Jen. If you are a casual observer or a heavy headline-reader of mainstream business journalism and tech tabloids, this might appear newsworthy. But if…

Design Thinking

7 min read

May 10, 2017

The Jump

And the few places that only the brave can know — I remember the jump. Do you? The sun was like a massive ember. Beneath you was a rippling sea of orange and yellow. You exploded forward with speed and aggression knowing that this mirrored the fire within that was only beginning to burn. …

Life Lessons

3 min read

Feb 16, 2017

The Design Sprint (And Three Reasons Why It’s a Solid Win)

(Part book review and some reflections on Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days) Blue Bottle Coffee had humble beginnings. James Freeman was a musician before quitting his job to start a coffee cart. From 2005–2012, this coffee cart expanded into cafes worldwide, including cities like Brooklyn, San Francisco, Oakland, and locations as far as Tokyo. Now renowned (and highly ranked) for its…

Design

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