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096: Bringing the Lean Startup into Your Organization: Leadership in the Age of Uncertainty | with Jeff Dyer

Engaging Leader

The new book The Innovator''s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization, by Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer, is a leader’s guide to validating new ideas, refining them, and bringing them to market. Maybe you’ve tried to bring the idea to life, only to have it turn out to be an expensive, time-consuming failure.

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How Testbeds Can Help Us To Co-Create The Future

The Horizons Tracker

The late Clayton Christensen famously highlighted that consumers are not buying our product as much as they are hiring it to complete a particular job. Unfortunately, to use the vernacular of Stephen Haeckel , many innovators adopt a make and sell approach rather than sense and respond. Co-creating innovation.

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How Boredom Can Drive Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Our eyes are underrated innovation tools. This Monday, I was in Mumbai conducting market research with a project team. I later learned that the people manning the shop were related to the license owner but had no formal training in drug dispensing. Make a regular habit of just standing and watching.

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How Amazon Trained Its Investors to Behave

Harvard Business Review

That opportunistic approach to financial markets has defined Amazon since it went public in 1997. But what's really going on is that Jeff Bezos has trained elements of the investment community to expect that low profits (or big losses) now represent investments that will eventually pay off, not signs of trouble. Nice timing, huh?

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How Big Data Is Changing Disruptive Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Christensen has even re-entered the fold clarifying what he means when he uses the term. Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective). Professor Clayton M. Instead, it was a byproduct. Is Uber disruptive?

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Three Year-End Innovation Takeaways from Asia

Harvard Business Review

I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy. Chinese companies like BYD are well positioned to lead the electrical vehicle market.

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Stop Reinventing Disruption

Harvard Business Review

Both articles espoused slightly new definitions of disruption, expanding the categorization of the world that Clay Christensen introduced us to more than 20 years ago. If integrated steel mills had built mini-mills to compete with their disruptors, their margins would have been compressed as they fought for share at the bottom of the market.