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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. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. 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.

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What the Marketing Agency of the Future Will Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

An outsourced idea and creative team that could get the production done at a cost that was less than what it would cost the brand to have a permanent staff in place. Eric Ries brought the concept of the Lean Startup into our zeitgeist. An agency used to act as the executional arm of the marketing department. Models of leanness.