Grabbing Lightning
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Grabbing Lightning
Established companies are clamoring for breakthrough innovation, but are often hamstrung by the highly reliable, repeatable processes of their management systems. Based on years of research, Grabbing Lightning shows how twelve companies have tried to develop a capability for sustainable breakthrough innovation and outlines best practices for your organization. The authors show how the management system for innovation is different from the traditional one in that it allows?and even encourages?mistakes and failures in order to promote learning. Grabbing Lightning outlines the three building blocks of breakthrough innovation (BI) and shows what it takes to become an organization that values the BI management system.
The DARPA Model for Transformative Technologies: Perspectives on the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Author: William Boone Bonvillian
language: en
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Release Date: 2020-01-09
The authors have done a masterful job of charting the important story of DARPA, one of the key catalysts of technological innovation in US recent history. By plotting the development, achievements and structure of the leading world agency of this kind, this book stimulates new thinking in the field of technological innovation with bearing on how to respond to climate change, pandemics, cyber security and other global problems of our time. The DARPA Model provides a useful guide for governmental agency and policy leaders, and for anybody interested in the role of governments in technological innovation. —Dr. Kent Hughes, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars This volume contains a remarkable collection of extremely insightful articles on the world’s most successful advanced technology agency. Drafted by the leading US experts on DARPA, it provides a variety of perspectives that in turn benefit from being presented together in a comprehensive volume. It reviews DARPA’s unique role in the U.S. innovation system, as well as the challenges DARPA and its clones face today. As the American model is being considered for adoption by a number of countries worldwide, this book makes a welcome and timely contribution to the policy dialogue on the role played by governments in stimulating technological innovation. — Prof. Charles Wessner, Georgetown University The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has played a remarkable role in the creation new transformative technologies, revolutionizing defense with drones and precision-guided munitions, and transforming civilian life with portable GPS receivers, voice-recognition software, self-driving cars, unmanned aerial vehicles, and, most famously, the ARPANET and its successor, the Internet. Other parts of the U.S. Government and some foreign governments have tried to apply the ‘DARPA model’ to help develop valuable new technologies. But how and why has DARPA succeeded? Which features of its operation and environment contribute to this success? And what lessons does its experience offer for other U.S. agencies and other governments that want to develop and demonstrate their own ‘transformative technologies’? This book is a remarkable collection of leading academic research on DARPA from a wide range of perspectives, combining to chart an important story from the Agency’s founding in the wake of Sputnik, to the current attempts to adapt it to use by other federal agencies. Informative and insightful, this guide is essential reading for political and policy leaders, as well as researchers and students interested in understanding the success of this agency and the lessons it offers to others.
Falling in Love for the First Time
Second chance romance Military hero Emotional healing Forced proximity Small-town charm Dog as a companion “Kathy Coatney does an excellent job of writing stories that go a little deeper than the average romance, which makes the romance that much more rewarding!” – 5-Star Review “Kathy Coatney is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors!” – 5-Star Review Maggie once believed her life was perfect—a career she loved and a man she’d die for. But tragedy changed everything. She’d loved Daniel Gregorio since she was a girl tagging along after him and her brother. While Daniel joined the military right after high school, Maggie became a nurse and eventually landed her dream job with the World Health Center. Fate reunited them in Eastern Europe when Daniel’s team rescued her aid station. Their whirlwind romance led to marriage, and for a time, Maggie was blissfully happy. But the man she loved carried wounds no one could see. Haunted by the horrors of his past, Daniel’s battle with PTSD turned their once-loving home into an emotional warzone. Maggie tried to hold on, but as his anger spiraled out of control, Daniel walked away, leaving her to pick up the pieces of her shattered heart. Now, it’s just Maggie, her loyal dog Lightning, and the miles she runs to escape the emptiness. But when a flash flood sweeps her off course during an early morning run, Maggie realizes she isn’t ready to give up—not on herself or Daniel. Their love was strong enough to survive the past. Can it overcome the darkness between them and find its way back to the light? Get your copy today and rediscover the power of true love—because it only comes once in a lifetime!