About George Watt

A transformative leader, George has enabled businesses and global enterprises to address complex technology problems, deliver new business benefits, and drive millions of dollars in savings and productivity gains. As VP of Strategy for a multibillion-dollar technology company, he was responsible for global scientific research, worldwide innovation initiatives, and the design, deployment, and evolution operation of an innovative start-up accelerator program. In that role he created and deployed the foundation artifacts and ceremonies that became the foundation of the Lean Entrepreneurship approach.

Throughout his career, George delivered innovations of his own such as a knowledge base for a neural network-based predictive performance management solution, one of the earliest private clouds (2005), and a lightweight event management agent. George was also awarded a patent for securing protected content by identifying recording devices.

George began his technical career as a systems programmer/sysadmin and systems engineer. He has held many national and global leadership positions, and has led global teams spanning North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. A passion for helping bring new ideas to life led him to found NovaLean where he helps people to collaborate to solve challenging problems, to create the conditions for repeatable innovation and new idea incubation, and to turn good ideas into vibrant, viable programs, services, or businesses.

George is co-author of “The Innovative CIO” and “Lean Entrepreneurship”, and tweets as @GeorgeDWatt.

Follow @GeorgeDWatt