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Become a Company That Questions Everything

Harvard Business Review

Questioning is also seen by many business leaders as “inefficient,” according to the author and Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen. Ries points out that at most companies, “the resources flow to the person with the most confident, best plan. Questioning should be rewarded (or at least, not punished).

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How Big Companies Should Innovate

Harvard Business Review

In his seminal work, The Innovator's Dilemma , Clayton Christensen made the point that for disruptive innovations to be pursued effectively, they require autonomous business units. What's more, his solution applies not just in the case of disruptive innovation, but also the business model innovations that we repeatedly fail to embrace.

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How to Innovate with an Executive Sponsor

Harvard Business Review

It's why Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma is so difficult to overcome. As Eric Ries and Steve Blank are so quick to point out, innovation requires iteration. They can develop a better understanding of their value proposition and tailor the business models of innovative offerings before wide-scale launches.

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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. Develop a shared innovation philosophy.

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The Making of an Innovation Master

Harvard Business Review

The duo (who are affiliated with Innosight) wrote a great book with Clayton Christensen last year called The Innovator's DNA. Seemingly everyone has seen the results of the book project that Osterwalder led — Business Model Generation — and has seen his "business model canvass" in action.