March 2020 – Page 3 – Intellectual Property Strategy

March 20, 2020

Psychological Safety at Work (and everywhere)

[This post was originally published August 29, 2017, on LinkedIn by Jeff Holman.]

A friend shared an article with me about team effectiveness. It resonated with me and prompted me through a sequence of interesting articles and perspectives. So I thought sharing it might be useful to many of my friends, because it provides a framework to think and talk about effective teamwork.

At the bottom of this article are a few links to the underlying article about Google’s two-year Project Aristotle and related resources that formed the basis for these observations. I believe it’s worth the time to review these links.

March 20, 2020

Is it Time for a New “Business Model Canvas?” An Introduction to the “Impact Business Model.”

[This post was originally published August 25, 2017, on LinkedIn by Jeff Holman.]

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Henry David Thoreau

In a recent interview with HBR Ideacast from Harvard Business Review, Steve Blank — a founding father of lean startup methodology — enumerated the three primary contributions to lean:

Alexander Osterwalder’s business model canvas
Steve Blank’s customer development process (also see here)
Eric Reis’ minimum viable product (MVP) development approach

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How to Predict IMPACT

[This post was originally published August 9, 2017, on LinkedIn by Jeff Holman.]

Lately I’ve been thinking about impact. How can a company predict the impact its products or services will have on customers?

“Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others?” Carl Sagan

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Defining Strategy

[This post was originally published April 5, 2017, on LinkedIn by Jeff Holman.]

There are a lot of different definitions of strategy. Go ahead and search the internet–you will find an endless list of strategy definitions. Some of them are similar to one another, while others are wildly differenty. My abbreviated definition of strategy is the alignment of actions with objectives. Building on this abbreviated definition, I propose every viable definition of strategy must include at least four basic components.

March 19, 2020March 19, 2020

Nine Noble Virtues of the Ancient Vikings: My Daughter’s Scholarship Project

[This post was originally published March 28, 2017, on LinkedIn by Jeff Holman.]

When Whitney, a high school senior with perfect grades and almost-perfect test scores, is on the search for college scholarships, what’s the logical next step? She starts her own scholarship program for fellow students, of course. And just to make it interesting, she plans nine separate character-based scholarships derived from each of the Nine Noble Virtues of the Ancient Vikings, because Viewmont High School’s mascot is the Viking.

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Looking for Funding? Go to School.

[This post was originally published September 23, 2014, on LinkedIn by Jeff Holman.]

I always advise students to take every opportunity while they are in school. There are very few professionals out there who will turn down a student when asked for a little help or counsel. But once that student status passes, it can be very difficult to get an audience with those same professionals.