The US Army is trying a new, quicker, more iterative approach to weapons and systems development. Its new command and control platform, NGC2, is a prime example of the service's efforts. Concerns ...

The “Fail Fast” approach to rocket development that has made Elon Musk’s Space X so successful was a significant departure from the more careful (and slow) methods used by NASA and their more typical ...

When Phil Henderson joined the Surdna Foundation as its president seven years ago, he led the nearly 100-year-old family foundation through an introspective process of defining its values and then ...

*There’s a mantra sweeping across the business world: “Fail fast, fail often.” From Silicon Valley startups to corporate boardrooms, leaders have been encouraged to embrace failure as a path to ...

When the Aspida insurance company launched in 2020, its chief people officer Sandy Ball saw an opportunity to create a company culture from scratch. She wanted that culture to appeal in particular to ...

If digital is the future of media, then newspapers have a significant learning curve ahead of them — one that will be accelerated by the Silicon Valley mantra "Fail fast, fail often." At least that's ...

When launching a new concept, an unproven idea, it is often more important to get something to market quickly than it is to continue to refine the concept privately. For years, we have advised ...

Failure has become de rigeur, particularly in software start-ups that initially require little capital and small teams. The idea seems simple enough: you start with an initial venture concept, put ...