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0807 | How Successful Organizations Respond to Customers with Josh Seidan

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Over the course of 25 years working in technology Josh has developed specialities that include Lean UX, interaction design, service design, and user experience design in agile software development environments. Eric Ries called their most recent book, Sense & Respond , “A crucial framework for the modern world of business.”

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Lean startup, lean company

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This definition comes from Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. Ries gives a detailed personal example of this concept from his work at IMVU. A Good share of development is now done using some form of Agile.

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How GE Applies Lean Startup Practices

Harvard Business Review

It’s a framework for entrepreneurs, building on “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. GE is an ideal laboratory for applying Lean practices because of its scale,” Ries says.

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The Biggest Lie in Corporate America Is Phase 2

Harvard Business Review

When transitioning from waterfall to agile development, the design team brings these preconceptions with it. But the fundamental difference between the two approaches is that agile development actually is an iterative process. Successful agile teams focus on problem statements. Solving problems strengthens teams.

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Start-Ups Need a Minimum Viable Brand

Harvard Business Review

Since launches should be grounded in a brand foundation while at the same time being pursued with agility and speed, today’s entrepreneurs require an alternative to a complete, robust brand platform. But being agile and responsive doesn’t require a ready-fire-aim approach when it comes to brand strategy.

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Big Bets vs. Little Bets and the future of HP

Harvard Business Review

Ned Barnholt is the former CEO of Agilent Technologies, the measurement company, and these days he's one of the more respected executives in Silicon Valley. While he's able to grin about it now, before Agilent spun off from Hewlett Packard in 1999, Barnholt and his colleagues learned from some of the largest failures in HP's history.

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How GE Stays Young

Harvard Business Review

As I described in a previous post , GE is working with Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author recognized for pioneering the Lean Startup movement. The Lean Startup approach is enabling GE to take “ Agile ” and “ Lean ” methods, which they had been using to improve operations, and apply them to starting businesses.