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In Big Companies, Lean Is Only One Piece of the Puzzle

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, one of us was sitting in a room at the Harvard Business School with Eric Ries and a number of budding entrepreneurs. The language has been widely adopted, and that includes some folks who haven''t yet had the chance to read Ries'' work or digest the ideas behind it. Patient capital. Maximize autonomy.

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Big Bets vs. Little Bets and the future of HP

Harvard Business Review

To borrow a phrase from Silicon Valley thought leader and author Eric Ries , they "achieved a failure." Ironically, a much more creative and experimental approach to innovation had been central to making Hewlett Packard into a market-leading behemoth. in 2010, and HP has been criticized for a decade-long R&D slide.

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