Innovating to Win - Forging our Future Industrial Network

America’s industrial base, created and scaled in WWII and perfected in the Cold War, has served the country well in the eight decades since Pearl Harbor. But the world has changed – new business models, new global competitors, and new technologies are all challenging America’s ability to promote peace and security abroad and remain safe and prosperous at home. Successful organizations in the commercial and government sector have used network thinking as the organizational principle to scale quickly, remain agile in the face of unpredictable futures, and operationalize an opportunistic mindset. FTE guest expert James "Hondo" Geurts, BENS Distinguished Fellow, frmr. Assistant Secretary of the Navy and US Air Force Colonel ret., explores the critical role of entrepreneurism and start-ups, business models that scale faster, and some tangible steps to make it easier for the government to take advantage of them.