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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. But like disruption before it, the zeitgeist around lean has in some ways grown apart from the power and purpose of the idea. Some incremental innovation simply doesn''t require change to the status quo.

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The Making of an Innovation Master

Harvard Business Review

For example, I'm sure that most innovation practitioners wouldn't put baseball researcher Bill James on their list, but his mission to find patterns, develop theories, and overturn orthodoxy has greatly influenced my own thinking. He is one of the most thoughtful students of disruptive innovation you'll meet. Horace Dediu.