Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

Imagine you’re a bright, inquisitive person working for a company with long-established policies and work processes in place (or maybe you don’t have to). What happens next in this scenario could be a good indicator of whether your company has a culture of inquiry or one of acceptance and conformity. Is there a better approach?

Company 15

Company Ries Christensen Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. Pursuing innovation inside a big company is a balancing act. Incentivize for long-term viability. Test to learn.

Innovation 17

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

In 2010, one of us was sitting in a room at the Harvard Business School with Eric Ries and a number of budding entrepreneurs. He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. One of these young entrepreneurs in particular stood out.

Company 13

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

As the world becomes more digitized, generating more information surrounding products and services and speeding up processes, large and small companies in every industry, even manufacturing, are starting to compete more like the software industry, with short product lifecycles and rapid decision-making. We are all lean now — or soon will be.

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Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

They pay content marketing firms to write company blogs and produce YouTube videos. When your customers discuss the actual business problems that your company solves, they are likely spending their time within a domain-specific social network. My company, ChartIQ, builds software to analyze and annotate stock charts.

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Ries Brand Early Adopters Media 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. But, as befits a company that has been around for 130 years, GE is moving on.

Six Sigma 12

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

One of Blank's disciples, Eric Ries , turned his wildly popular Startup Lessons Learned blog into The Lean Startup , one of 2011's best business books. A company might introduce a product in the marketplace. Results fall short of expectations, but the company says, "Well, it's just a minimal viable product for learning."

Productivity 18

Productivity Products Ries Mintzberg 18

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

In a 2008 New York Times interview , he said, "If I am going to be at the top of the car company, I want to be the owner-chef — with knowledge not just of its vehicles but their ingredients. We developed this map after observing a small set of novice users try to complete the process. For that, CEOs must move beyond showmanship.

Leadership 15

Leadership Ries CEO Products 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries' book The Lean Start-Up , has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. So instead, I am picking a few companies with less well known stories that may resonate with today's entrepreneurs.

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P&L Lewin EBITDA Ries 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Other start-ups develop a core technology that has myriad possible uses and they’re not quite sure which will be most appealing, so they plan to just put it out on the market and let customers decide. It may be tempting to skip brand development in the rush to get a new product to market. what we believe in – our defining values.

Brand 13

Brand Ries Entrepreneur Agility 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

In my eyes, the work Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and others have done to provide a cogent, accessible frame around the academic concepts of emergent strategy is one of the most important contributions to the innovation movement over the past few years. That''s not right. Of course, the value of a tool depends on its application.

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Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

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. To launch HP's big new businesses, the company's managers took rigorously logical steps. They then researched and analyzed the markets, segmented them, and developed products.

Ries 13

Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

One minute, you've never heard of Eric Ries , and the next he's on the cover of Inc. Reading the case study, I realized Ray's experience provides a perfect template for the elusive process — which any professional can learn from — of how to develop a world-class reputation and become dominant in your field.

Reputation 12

Reputation Ries Case Study Kotter 12

Leading Blog

JANUARY 26, 2018

What follows are some of the thoughts that resonated with me: Eric Ries: “The mistake isn’t releasing something bad. Chris Dixon: “You’ve either started a company or you haven’t. Keith Rabois: “First Principle: The team you build is the company you build.” (p. The mistake is to launch it and get PR people involved.

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Entrepreneur Altman Venture Capitalist Ries 172

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

To become a complete man or woman, each must develop both sides of the psyche. Whether disruptive innovation involves a product, service, company, or especially, an individual, Christensen provides a robust theory for learning how to lead. Perhaps this explains why so few of our "Lists on Leadership" include the voices of women.

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Books Christensen Ries Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

Here are five new attributes that I think marketing agencies will need to develop to survive: 1. Eric Ries brought the concept of the Lean Startup into our zeitgeist. Service-based companies selling products has not been a wildly successful endeavor for the majority of marketing agencies. Models of leanness.

Marketing 14

Marketing Brand Advertorial Advertising 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. It’s a technique that any manager can use when developing and launching a new venture.

Planning 13

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

These ICOs are nearly always held when a project is at an immature stage of development akin to a seed stage startup — when it is testing hypotheses around its consumer value proposition and forming a founding team. This focused attention from developers has the added benefit of crowdsourcing feedback on the beta version of the project.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

You have a great business idea but you are not sure how to develop it. model, startups will have more success if they adopt lean and agile business development principles, where failing fast is the premium strategy and the lean business model reigns supreme. And you start by developing the simplest working version of your idea.

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Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

As Eric Ries and Steve Blank are so quick to point out, innovation requires iteration. In the process of experimentation and iteration, companies will expose how products and services can come together more effectively.

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Innovation Execution How To Ries 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

.” And yet the lean startup methodology, born in Silicon Valley as a way for startups to tune in to customer needs with limited resources, has been gaining major momentum inside big companies like General Electric, Alaska Airlines, Telefonica, 3M, and W.L. A faster cycle time for developing ideas.

Company 8

Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

You’re probably familiar with the “minimum viable product” of Eric Ries’ Lean Start-Up fame; but here I’m talking about the acronymically identical “minimum viable pilot.” How to make your company more nimble and responsive. Think “lean pilots.” ” Insight Center.

KPI 13

KPI Innovation Ries Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2012

The widespread adoption of Eric Ries 's work beyond Silicon Valley has been a godsend for innovators. The Lean Startup has crystallized many of the ideas fundamental to successful innovation and provided companies with additional ways to understand and make room for rapid iteration, agile development, and in-market testing of new ideas.

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Ries Business Model Entrepreneur Agility 20

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In 2001 the list of companies with the highest market caps was dominated by blue chips. Large enterprises have been responding to these developments for some time, mainly by applying the methods of startups such as lean experimentation, design thinking, and agile development. TodUdom/iStock. Don’t Seek Consensus.

CEO 8

CEO Consensus Management Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Organizational Development Book. No one style is better than another, and each car­ries its own set of benefits to a collaborative discus­sion. Ask each person a few directed questions: What’s your work history, both at this company and in previous jobs? Excerpted from. Harvard Business Review. Add to Cart.

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Diversity Ries Creativity Groupthink 8