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The Experiment That Succeeded: How a Government Startup Beat Amazon, Leveraged Innovation History and Changed Air Force Culture
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About The Experiment That Succeeded: How A Government
Product Description Innovation may be a buzzword du jour in entrepreneurship and business circles but knowing how to nurture and grow an innovative culture tends to be elusive. This is particularly true within a big bureaucracy and especially within government. Few organizations learned that better than AFWERX, a government startup created to unleash the US Air Force’s culture of innovation. Starting as an idea in the Pentagon, AFWERX ended up being ranked #16 on Fast Company’s 2020 list of Best Workplaces for Innovators—ahead of companies such as Amazon and Intel—in less than three years’ time. To guide AFWERX to its world-class cultural capabilities, co-founder and startup-years leader Dr. Brian “Beam” Maue developed an original strategic framework that drew upon ideas ranging from Sun Tzu to Silicon Valley. In The Experiment That Succeeded, Beam chronicles the principles and practices AFWERX used during its startup years to realize its remarkable achievements. Bouncing between gravitas and a bit of buffoonery, Beam takes readers on a journey through his Factors Linking Organizational Will (FLOW) framework. The exploration includes right and left-brain thinking, thought-provoking culture graphics and more than 50 questions to help internalize insights absorbed along the way. Achieving innovation success may be challenging, but it is not random. The Experiment That Succeeded reveals hidden principles of innovation success from a truly unique voice in the world of creative cultures. By applying its lessons, organizations—even those within the government—will accelerate up the learning curve and warp reality more readily in their favor. Review "Creating innovation and making good things happen in government is not easy. But learning how to do innovation from the founder of a premier innovation unit like AFWERX makes a difficult path clearer. Beam Maue provides a sound guide to creating government innovation, giving us a conceptual framework for approaching the topic, as well as insights from first-hand lessons learned. This unique and insightful book, full of real tools to assist in forming innovation efforts, shows us why AFWERX became such an important innovation effort." - Sabra Horne, Chief, CISA Innovation Hub (Ms. Horne's professional remarks are her own, and not to be considered representative of DHS or the US Government) "The men and women who serve in support of our national security deserve access to the best innovation practices and cutting-edge technology that is available. AFWERX is part of a growing network of efforts designed to achieve that outcome, and The Experiment That Succeeded offers actionable considerations for building strong, inventive teams that are able to achieve outsized impact. - Morgan Plummer, National Security Innovation Network Director (Mr. Plummer's professional remarks are his own, and not to be considered representative of DoD or the US Government) "We know that organizations benefit greatly from user-friendly processes that bring together data, diversity, and design to inform their choices, and so we were excited to join with AFWERX and share our best practices with one another. Beam's telling of The Experiment That Succeeded will help you see the kind of environment that allows such collaborations to thrive at a world class level." - Tom Kehner, Partner, theDifference "Innovation and innovation resources are fundamental to our economic prosperity, national defense and security, and day-to-day human flourishing. As a student of how we innovate, I watched from a distance as the United States Department of Defense totally revamped their innovation infrastructure over the past 4-5 years. As I learned when I had Beam as a featured guest on the Next Frontier Podcast: his approach to building AFWERX, his historical and philosophical reference frame, and his keen focus on the human component of innovation processes have given the United States Air Force
