The previous post in this series listed three lessons organizations can learn to to drive actions to defend against Alien invaders:
Three more lessons you can take to drive action
Measure three times – Before, during, and after executing to know and communicate where you’ve been, where you are, and where you are going. Metrics are for working with facts, communicating and making changes.
Be on the Lookout for aliens of all sizes and be prepared to be an alien when required. How will you know?
Fanaticism and requirements means that rapidly taking core products and services to the market that do at least 80% of customer desired functions (and not just the minimum viable product that you want to tell customers they want) delays spending until those functions become requirements.
For airplanes Ben Rich (Leader of Lockheed's Skunkworks) said, “Eighty percent efficiency would get the job done, so why strain resources and bust deadlines to achieve that extra 20 percent, which would cost as much as 50 percent more in overtime and delays and have little real impact on the overall performance of the aircraft itself?” Be prepared to change your business before a Tiny Alien does it for you.
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