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25, 2023</span> by steve blank </div> <div class="entry"> <p><a href="https://poetsandquants.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="25513" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2019/12/03/getting-schooled-lessons-from-an-adjuncts/poets-and-quants-logo/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/poets-and-quants-logo.png?fit=1438%2C248&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1438,248" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Poets and quants logo" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/poets-and-quants-logo.png?fit=300%2C52&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/poets-and-quants-logo.png?fit=468%2C81&ssl=1" class="wp-image-25513 alignleft" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/poets-and-quants-logo.png?resize=163%2C28&ssl=1" alt="" width="163" height="28" /></a>This post <a href="https://poetsandquants.com/2023/07/17/steve-blank-lean-meets-wicked-problems/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously appeared</a> in Poets & Quants.</p> <p>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 evil, but refers to really complex problems, ones with multiple moving parts, where the solution isn’t obvious. (Understanding and solving homelessness, disinformation, climate change mitigation or an insurgency are examples of wicked problems. <a href="https://hbr.org/2008/05/strategy-as-a-wicked-problem">Co</a><a href="https://hbr.org/2008/05/strategy-as-a-wicked-problem">mpanies also face Wicked problems</a>. In contrast, designing AI-driven enterprise software or building dating apps are comparatively simple problems.)</p> <hr /> <p style="font-weight: 400;">I’ve known <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-cristobal-garcia-herrera-a81174?originalSubdomain=uk">Professor Cristobal Garcia</a> since 2010 when he hosted my first visit to Catholic University in Santiago of Chile and to southern Patagonia. Now at Imperial College Business School and Co-Founder of the <a href="https://www.wickedacceleration.org/">Wicked Acceleration Labs</a>, Cristobal and I wondered if we could combine the tenets of Lean (get out of the building, build MVPs, run experiments, move with speed and urgency) with the expanded toolset developed by researchers who work on Wicked problems and Systems’ Thinking.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Our goal was to see if we could get students to <u>stop admiring problems and work</u><u> rapidly on solving them</u>. As Wicked and Lean seem to be mutually exclusive, this was a pretty audacious undertaking.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">This five-week class was going to be our MVP.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Here’s what happened.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Finding The Problems<br /> </strong>Professor Garcia scoured the world to find eight Wicked/complex problems for students to work on. He presented to organizations in the Netherlands, Chile, Spain, the UK (Ministry of Defense and the BBC), and aerospace companies. The end result was a truly ambitious, unique, and international set of curated Wicked problems.</p> <ul> <li>Increasing security and prosperity amid the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche_conflict">Mapuche conflict</a> in Araucania region of Chile</li> <li>Enabling and accelerating a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_hydrogen">Green Hydrogen</a> economy</li> <li>Turning the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_Country_(autonomous_community)">Basque Country in Spain</a> into an AI hub</li> <li>Solving Disinformation/Information Pollution for the BBC</li> <li>Creating <a href="https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/POST-PN-0651/POST-PN-0651.pdf">Blue Carbon</a> projects for the UK Ministry of Defense</li> <li>Improving patient outcomes for Ukrainian battlefield injuries</li> <li>Imagining the future of a low-earth-orbit space economy</li> <li>Creating a modular architecture for future UK defense ships</li> </ul> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Recruiting the Students<br /> </strong>With the problems in hand, we set about recruiting students from both <a href="https://www.imperial.ac.uk/business-school/">Imperial College’s business school</a> and the <a href="https://www.rca.ac.uk/">Royal College of Art</a>’s design and engineering programs.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">We held an info session explaining the problems and the unique parts of the class. We were going to share with them a “Swiss Army Knife” of traditional tools to understand Wicked/Complex problems, but they were not going to research these problems in the library. Instead, using the elements of Lean methodology, they were going to get out of the building and observe the problems first-hand. And instead of passively observing them, they were going to build and test MVPs. All in six weeks.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">50 students signed up to work on the eight problems with different degrees of “wickedness”.</p> <div id="attachment_29803" style="width: 478px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Imperial-wicked-2023-class.jpg?ssl=1"><img data-recalc-dims="1" fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-29803" data-attachment-id="29803" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2023/07/25/lean-meets-wicked-problems/imperial-wicked-2023-class/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Imperial-wicked-2023-class.jpg?fit=3274%2C1749&ssl=1" data-orig-size="3274,1749" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Imperial wicked 2023 class" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="<p>Imperial Wicked Problems and Systems Thinking – 2023 Class</p> " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Imperial-wicked-2023-class.jpg?fit=300%2C160&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Imperial-wicked-2023-class.jpg?fit=468%2C250&ssl=1" class="wp-image-29803 size-large" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Imperial-wicked-2023-class.jpg?resize=468%2C250&ssl=1" alt="" width="468" height="250" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Imperial-wicked-2023-class.jpg?resize=1024%2C547&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Imperial-wicked-2023-class.jpg?resize=300%2C160&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Imperial-wicked-2023-class.jpg?resize=150%2C80&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Imperial-wicked-2023-class.jpg?resize=768%2C410&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Imperial-wicked-2023-class.jpg?resize=1536%2C821&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Imperial-wicked-2023-class.jpg?resize=2048%2C1094&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Imperial-wicked-2023-class.jpg?w=936&ssl=1 936w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Imperial-wicked-2023-class.jpg?w=1404&ssl=1 1404w" sizes="(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-29803" class="wp-caption-text">Imperial Wicked Problems and Systems Thinking – 2023 Class</p></div> <p><b>The Class<br /> </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">The pedagogy of the class (our teaching methods and the learning activities) were similar to all the Lean/I-Corps and <a href="https://h4d.stanford.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hacking for Defense</a> classes we’ve previously taught. This meant the class was </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">team-based, Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering) and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">experiential – where the students, rather than being presented with all of the essential information, must discover that information </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">rapidly </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">for themselves.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The teams were going to get out of the building and talk to 10 stakeholder a week. Then weekly each team will present </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">1) here’s what we thought, 2) here’s what we did, 3) here’s what we learned, 4) here’s what we’re going to do during this week.</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">More Tools<br /> </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The key difference between this class and previous Lean/I-Corps and Hacking for Defense classes was that Wicked problems required more than just a business model or mission model to grasp the problem and map the solution. Here, to get a handle on the complexity of their problem the students needed a </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">suite</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of tools – Stakeholder Maps, Systems Maps, Assumptions Mapping, Experimentation Menus, Unintended Consequences Map, and finally Dr. Garcia’s derivative of the Alexander Osterwalder’s <a href="https://www.strategyzer.com/canvas">Business Model Canvas</a> – the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wicked Canvas</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – which added the concept of unintended consequences and the “sub-problems” according to the different stakeholders’ perspectives to the traditional canvas.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During the class the teaching team offered explanations of each tool, but the teams got a firmer grasp on Wicked tools from a guest lecture by </span><a href="https://design.cmu.edu/people/faculty/terry-irwin"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Professor Terry Irwin</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Director of the </span><a href="https://transitiondesigninstitute.net/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Transition Design Institute</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> at Carnegie Mellon (see her presentation </span><a href="https://youtu.be/WzRGFiFZwq0?t=7"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.) Throughout the class teams had the flexibility to select the tools they felt appropriate to rapidly gain an holistic understanding and yet to develop a minimum viable product to address and experiment with each of the wicked problems.</span></p> <h3><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Class Flow<br /> </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Week 1 </span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What is a simple idea? What are big ideas and Impact Hypotheses? </span> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Characteristics of each. Rewards, CEO, team, complexity, end point, etc. </span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What is unique about Wicked Problems?</span> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Beyond TAM and SAM (“back of the napkin”) for Wicked Problems</span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You need Big Ideas to tackle Wicked Problems: but who does it?</span> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"> Startups vs. Large Companies vs. Governments</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Innovation at Speed for Horizon 1, 2 and 3 (Managing the Portfolio across Horizons)</span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What is Systems Thinking?</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How to map stakeholders and systems’ dynamics?</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Customer & Stakeholder Discovery: getting outside the building, city and country: why and how? </span></li> </ul> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mapping the Problem(s), Stakeholders and Systems – Wicked Tools</span></i><a href="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-1-Stakeholders-and-Systems.jpg?ssl=1"><img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="29770" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2023/07/25/lean-meets-wicked-problems/figure-1-stakeholders-and-systems/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-1-Stakeholders-and-Systems.jpg?fit=3029%2C1320&ssl=1" data-orig-size="3029,1320" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Figure 1 Stakeholders and Systems" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-1-Stakeholders-and-Systems.jpg?fit=300%2C131&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-1-Stakeholders-and-Systems.jpg?fit=468%2C204&ssl=1" class="size-large wp-image-29770 aligncenter" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-1-Stakeholders-and-Systems.jpg?resize=468%2C204&ssl=1" alt="" width="468" height="204" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-1-Stakeholders-and-Systems.jpg?resize=1024%2C446&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-1-Stakeholders-and-Systems.jpg?resize=300%2C131&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-1-Stakeholders-and-Systems.jpg?resize=150%2C65&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-1-Stakeholders-and-Systems.jpg?resize=768%2C335&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-1-Stakeholders-and-Systems.jpg?resize=1536%2C669&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-1-Stakeholders-and-Systems.jpg?resize=2048%2C892&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-1-Stakeholders-and-Systems.jpg?w=936&ssl=1 936w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-1-Stakeholders-and-Systems.jpg?w=1404&ssl=1 1404w" sizes="(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px" /></a></p> <h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Week 2</span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Teams present for 6 min and receive 4 mins feedback</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Wicked Swiss Army Knife for the week: Mapping Assumptions Matrix, unintended consequences and how to run and design experiments</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Prof Erkko Autio (ICBS and Wicked Labs) on AI Ecosystems and Prof Peter Palensky (TU Delft) on Smart Grids, Decarbornization and Green Hydrogen</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lecture on Minimal Viable Products (MVPs) and Experiments</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Homework: getting outside the building & the country to run experiments</span></li> </ul> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Assumption Mapping and Experimentation Type – Wicked Tools</span></i><a href="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-2-Assumpitons-Experiments-Consenquences.jpg?ssl=1"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="29772" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2023/07/25/lean-meets-wicked-problems/figure-2-assumpitons-experiments-consenquences/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-2-Assumpitons-Experiments-Consenquences.jpg?fit=2368%2C1688&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2368,1688" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Figure 2 Assumpitons, Experiments Consenquences" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-2-Assumpitons-Experiments-Consenquences.jpg?fit=300%2C214&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-2-Assumpitons-Experiments-Consenquences.jpg?fit=468%2C334&ssl=1" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-29772" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-2-Assumpitons-Experiments-Consenquences.jpg?resize=468%2C334&ssl=1" alt="" width="468" height="334" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-2-Assumpitons-Experiments-Consenquences.jpg?resize=1024%2C730&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-2-Assumpitons-Experiments-Consenquences.jpg?resize=300%2C214&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-2-Assumpitons-Experiments-Consenquences.jpg?resize=150%2C107&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-2-Assumpitons-Experiments-Consenquences.jpg?resize=768%2C547&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-2-Assumpitons-Experiments-Consenquences.jpg?resize=1536%2C1095&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-2-Assumpitons-Experiments-Consenquences.jpg?resize=2048%2C1460&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-2-Assumpitons-Experiments-Consenquences.jpg?w=936&ssl=1 936w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-2-Assumpitons-Experiments-Consenquences.jpg?w=1404&ssl=1 1404w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px" /></a></p> <h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Week 3</span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Teams present in 6 min and receive 4 mins feedback</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Wicked Swiss Army Knife for the week: from problem to solution via “How Might We…” Builder and further initial solution experimentation</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Canvases: What, Why and How </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Wicked Canvas </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Next Steps and Homework: continue running experiments with MVPs and start validating your business/mission/wicked canvas</span></li> </ul> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Wicked Canvas – Wicked Tools</span></i></p> <h3><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figue-4-Wicked-Canvas.jpg?ssl=1"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="29777" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2023/07/25/lean-meets-wicked-problems/figue-4-wicked-canvas/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figue-4-Wicked-Canvas.jpg?fit=2151%2C1647&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2151,1647" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Figue 4 Wicked Canvas" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figue-4-Wicked-Canvas.jpg?fit=300%2C230&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figue-4-Wicked-Canvas.jpg?fit=468%2C358&ssl=1" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-29777" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figue-4-Wicked-Canvas.jpg?resize=468%2C358&ssl=1" alt="" width="468" height="358" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figue-4-Wicked-Canvas.jpg?resize=1024%2C784&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figue-4-Wicked-Canvas.jpg?resize=300%2C230&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figue-4-Wicked-Canvas.jpg?resize=150%2C115&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figue-4-Wicked-Canvas.jpg?resize=768%2C588&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figue-4-Wicked-Canvas.jpg?resize=1536%2C1176&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figue-4-Wicked-Canvas.jpg?resize=2048%2C1568&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figue-4-Wicked-Canvas.jpg?w=936&ssl=1 936w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figue-4-Wicked-Canvas.jpg?w=1404&ssl=1 1404w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px" /></a></span></h3> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experimentation Design and How We Might… – Wicked Tools</span></i><a href="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-3-Experiment-Design-How-we-Might.jpg?ssl=1"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="29775" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2023/07/25/lean-meets-wicked-problems/figure-3-experiment-design-how-we-might/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-3-Experiment-Design-How-we-Might.jpg?fit=3227%2C1239&ssl=1" data-orig-size="3227,1239" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Figure 3 Experiment Design, How we Might" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" 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https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-3-Experiment-Design-How-we-Might.jpg?resize=768%2C295&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-3-Experiment-Design-How-we-Might.jpg?resize=1536%2C590&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-3-Experiment-Design-How-we-Might.jpg?resize=2048%2C786&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-3-Experiment-Design-How-we-Might.jpg?w=936&ssl=1 936w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figure-3-Experiment-Design-How-we-Might.jpg?w=1404&ssl=1 1404w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px" /></a></p> <h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Week 4</span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Teams present in 6 min and receive 5 mins feedback</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wicked Business Models – validating all building blocks</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Geography of Innovation – </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">the milieu, creative cities & prosperous regions</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How World War II and the UK Started Silicon Valley</span></li> <li aria-level="1">The Wicked Swiss Tool- <span style="font-weight: 400;">maps for acupuncture in the territory</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Storytelling & Pitching </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Homework: Validated MVP & Lessons learned</span></li> </ul> <p><em>Acupuncture Map for Regional System Intervention <i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Wicked Tools</span></i></em><a href="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Acupuncture-map.jpg?ssl=1"><br /> <img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="29816" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2023/07/25/lean-meets-wicked-problems/acupuncture-map/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Acupuncture-map.jpg?fit=1300%2C508&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1300,508" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Acupuncture map" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Acupuncture-map.jpg?fit=300%2C117&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Acupuncture-map.jpg?fit=468%2C183&ssl=1" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-29816" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Acupuncture-map.jpg?resize=468%2C183&ssl=1" alt="" width="468" height="183" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Acupuncture-map.jpg?resize=1024%2C400&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Acupuncture-map.jpg?resize=300%2C117&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Acupuncture-map.jpg?resize=150%2C59&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Acupuncture-map.jpg?resize=768%2C300&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Acupuncture-map.jpg?w=1300&ssl=1 1300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Acupuncture-map.jpg?w=936&ssl=1 936w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px" /></a></p> <h3><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Figue-4-Wicked-Canvas.jpg"><br /> </a>Week 5</span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Teams presented their Final Lessons Learned journey – </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Validated MVP, Insights & Hindsight </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">(see the presentations at the end of the post.)</span> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What did we understand about the problem on day 1?</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What do we now understand?</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How did we get here?</span></li> <li aria-level="2">What solutions would we propose now?</li> <li aria-level="2">What did we learn?</li> <li aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reflections on the Wicked Tools</span></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><b>Results<br /> </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">To be honest, I wasn’t sure what to expect. We pushed the students way past what they have done in other classes. In spite of what we said in the info session and syllabus, many students were in shock when they realized that they couldn’t take the class by just showing up, and heard in no uncertain terms that no stakeholder/customer interviews in week 1 was unacceptable.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet, everyone got the message pretty quickly. The team working on the</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche_conflict"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mapuche conflict</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Araucania region of Chile, flew to Chile from London, interviewed multiple stakeholders and were back in time for next week’s class. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The team working to turn the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_Country_(autonomous_community)"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Basque Country in Spain</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> into an AI hub</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> did the same – they flew to Bilbao and interviewed several stakeholders. The team working on the Green Hydrogen got connected to the Rotterdam ecosystem and key stakeholders in the Port, energy incumbents, VCs and Tech Universities. The team working on Ukraine did not fly there for obvious reasons. The rest of the teams spread out across the UK – all of them furiously mapping stakeholders, assumptions, systems, etc., while proposing minimal viable solutions. By the end of the class it was a whirlwind of activity as students not only presented their progress but saw that of their peers. No one wanted to be left behind. They all moved with speed and alacrity.</span></p> <h3><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Lessons Learned</strong></span></h3> <blockquote> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our conclusion? While this class is not a substitute for a years-long deep analysis of Wicked/complex problems it gave students:</span> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">a practical hands-on introduction to tools to map, sense, understand and potentially solve Wicked Problems</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">the confidence and tools to stop admiring problems and work on solving them</span></li> </ul> </li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">I think we’ll teach it again.</span></li> </ul> </blockquote> <iframe loading="lazy" width="100%" height="92" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1578345555&width=false&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=false&show_comments=false&color=false&show_user=false&show_reposts=false"></iframe> <h2><b>Team final presentations<br /> </b></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The team’s final lessons learned presentations were pretty extraordinary, only matched by their post-class comments. Take a look below.</span></p> <h3><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oshXruxYZe3ct4-w7oSAgPygXgiYbYBN/view?usp=sharing"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Team Wicked Araucania</span></i></a></h3> <p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oshXruxYZe3ct4-w7oSAgPygXgiYbYBN/view"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="29781" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2023/07/25/lean-meets-wicked-problems/team-2-title/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-2-title.jpg?fit=2669%2C1505&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2669,1505" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Team 2 title" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-2-title.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-2-title.jpg?fit=468%2C264&ssl=1" class="aligncenter wp-image-29781 size-medium" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-2-title.jpg?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1" alt="" width="300" height="169" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-2-title.jpg?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-2-title.jpg?resize=1024%2C577&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-2-title.jpg?resize=150%2C85&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-2-title.jpg?resize=768%2C433&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-2-title.jpg?resize=1536%2C866&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-2-title.jpg?resize=2048%2C1155&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-2-title.jpg?w=936&ssl=1 936w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-2-title.jpg?w=1404&ssl=1 1404w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Click </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oshXruxYZe3ct4-w7oSAgPygXgiYbYBN/view?usp=sharing"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> if you can’t see the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Araucania</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> presentation.</span></p> <h3><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JzKsp13Xule5oddR8Gzapa4qMTsxO7lR/view?usp=sharing"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Team Accelerate Basque</span></i></a></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JzKsp13Xule5oddR8Gzapa4qMTsxO7lR/view"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="29784" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2023/07/25/lean-meets-wicked-problems/team-3-title/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-3-title.jpg?fit=2666%2C1502&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2666,1502" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Team 3 title" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-3-title.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-3-title.jpg?fit=468%2C264&ssl=1" class="aligncenter wp-image-29784 size-medium" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-3-title.jpg?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1" alt="" width="300" height="169" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-3-title.jpg?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-3-title.jpg?resize=1024%2C577&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-3-title.jpg?resize=150%2C85&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-3-title.jpg?resize=768%2C433&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-3-title.jpg?resize=1536%2C865&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-3-title.jpg?resize=2048%2C1154&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-3-title.jpg?w=936&ssl=1 936w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-3-title.jpg?w=1404&ssl=1 1404w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>Click </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JzKsp13Xule5oddR8Gzapa4qMTsxO7lR/view?usp=sharing"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> if you can’t see the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Accelerate Basque</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> presentation.</span></p> <h3><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c9nlyj_BLRW1mG-FL_0IVruQ2uUEyFZs/view"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Team Green Hydrogen</span></i></a><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c9nlyj_BLRW1mG-FL_0IVruQ2uUEyFZs/view"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="29790" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2023/07/25/lean-meets-wicked-problems/green-title/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Green-title.jpg?fit=3550%2C1861&ssl=1" data-orig-size="3550,1861" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Green title" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Green-title.jpg?fit=300%2C157&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Green-title.jpg?fit=468%2C245&ssl=1" class="aligncenter wp-image-29790 size-medium" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Green-title.jpg?resize=300%2C157&ssl=1" alt="" width="300" height="157" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Green-title.jpg?resize=300%2C157&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Green-title.jpg?resize=1024%2C537&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Green-title.jpg?resize=150%2C79&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Green-title.jpg?resize=768%2C403&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Green-title.jpg?resize=1536%2C805&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Green-title.jpg?resize=2048%2C1074&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Green-title.jpg?w=936&ssl=1 936w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Green-title.jpg?w=1404&ssl=1 1404w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Click </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c9nlyj_BLRW1mG-FL_0IVruQ2uUEyFZs/view?usp=sharing"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> if you can’t see the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Green Hydrogen</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> presentation.</span></p> <h3><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GbDDEeLbG2oxaSgLeZqp9h8sHOECMGe5/view?usp=sharing"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Team </span></i><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Into The Blue</span></i></a></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GbDDEeLbG2oxaSgLeZqp9h8sHOECMGe5/view"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="29792" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2023/07/25/lean-meets-wicked-problems/blue-title/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Blue-title.jpg?fit=3955%2C2242&ssl=1" data-orig-size="3955,2242" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Blue title" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Blue-title.jpg?fit=300%2C170&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Blue-title.jpg?fit=468%2C265&ssl=1" class="aligncenter wp-image-29792 size-medium" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Blue-title.jpg?resize=300%2C170&ssl=1" alt="" width="300" height="170" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Blue-title.jpg?resize=300%2C170&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Blue-title.jpg?resize=1024%2C580&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Blue-title.jpg?resize=150%2C85&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Blue-title.jpg?resize=768%2C435&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Blue-title.jpg?resize=1536%2C871&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Blue-title.jpg?resize=2048%2C1161&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Blue-title.jpg?w=936&ssl=1 936w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Blue-title.jpg?w=1404&ssl=1 1404w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>Click </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GbDDEeLbG2oxaSgLeZqp9h8sHOECMGe5/view?usp=sharing"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> if you can’t see the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Team Blue</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> presentation.</span></p> <h3><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y_9ftOW4ezBkhFP1sAzgp4otnkp9lAU0/view?usp=sharing"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Team Information Pollution</span></i></a></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y_9ftOW4ezBkhFP1sAzgp4otnkp9lAU0/view"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="29786" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2023/07/25/lean-meets-wicked-problems/team-4-title/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/team-4-title.jpg?fit=960%2C540&ssl=1" data-orig-size="960,540" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="team 4 title" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/team-4-title.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/team-4-title.jpg?fit=468%2C263&ssl=1" class="aligncenter wp-image-29786 size-medium" src="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/team-4-title.jpg?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1" alt="" width="300" height="169" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/team-4-title.jpg?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/team-4-title.jpg?resize=150%2C84&ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/team-4-title.jpg?resize=768%2C432&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/team-4-title.jpg?w=960&ssl=1 960w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>Click </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y_9ftOW4ezBkhFP1sAzgp4otnkp9lAU0/view?usp=sharing"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> if you can’t see the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Team Information Pollution</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> presentation.</span></p> <h3><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/12a2aLdG25YaPUzFwpVlIeO346DUrfH2m/view"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Team Ukraine</span></i></a></h3> <p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/12a2aLdG25YaPUzFwpVlIeO346DUrfH2m/view"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="29780" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2023/07/25/lean-meets-wicked-problems/team-1-title/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-1-Title.jpg?fit=2000%2C1233&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2000,1233" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Team 1 Title" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-1-Title.jpg?fit=300%2C185&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-1-Title.jpg?fit=468%2C288&ssl=1" class="aligncenter wp-image-29780 size-medium" 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100vw, 300px" /></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Click </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/12a2aLdG25YaPUzFwpVlIeO346DUrfH2m/view?usp=sharing"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> if you can’t see the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Team Ukraine</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> presentation.</span></p> <h3><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-SPOZhBEeidJanTCEBMMKoFlduXex1fL/view?usp=sharing"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Team Wicked Space</span></i></a></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-SPOZhBEeidJanTCEBMMKoFlduXex1fL/view"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="29794" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2023/07/25/lean-meets-wicked-problems/space-title/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Space-title.jpg?fit=3921%2C2208&ssl=1" data-orig-size="3921,2208" 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href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G_VJL8aqYKU5jGdKvEzpZy_Kh69iocuW/view?usp=sharing"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Team Future Proof the Navy</span></i></a></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G_VJL8aqYKU5jGdKvEzpZy_Kh69iocuW/view"><img data-recalc-dims="1" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="29788" data-permalink="https://steveblank.com/2023/07/25/lean-meets-wicked-problems/team-7-title/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/steveblank.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Team-7-title.jpg?fit=960%2C540&ssl=1" data-orig-size="960,540" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Team 7 title" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" 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