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. To us, there are few better examples at demonstrating the power of the Lean Startup. But like disruption before it, the zeitgeist around lean has in some ways grown apart from the power and purpose of the idea.

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Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. Andreessen’s article helped accelerate the company’s digital transformation. In response to Ries’s book , GE adopted lean methods and built its Fastworks program around them.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

But let's not swing the pendulum too far in the other direction and spread the delusion that starting a company is something anyone can do to get rich and famous quickly. Eric Ries has recently become fond of saying, "Entrepreneurship is not cool, it's not sexy and it's totally uncomfortable. It's not about the fame, glory or money.

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Entrepreneur Ries Hammer Technology 18

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

But let's not swing the pendulum too far in the other direction and spread the delusion that starting a company is something anyone can do to get rich and famous quickly. Eric Ries has recently become fond of saying, "Entrepreneurship is not cool, it's not sexy and it's totally uncomfortable. It's not about the fame, glory or money.

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Entrepreneur Ries Hammer Technology 18

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.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Our ability to wield power and control situations is our masculine side, while the capacity for relatedness and love is feminine. Whether disruptive innovation involves a product, service, company, or especially, an individual, Christensen provides a robust theory for learning how to lead. Leadership weds the two.

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Books Christensen Ries Disruptive Innovation 13

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. Rich Barton: “It’s much more powerful long-term to make up a new word than it is to use a literal word. Chris Dixon: “You’ve either started a company or you haven’t. Rich Barton: “Ideas are cheap.

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Entrepreneur Altman Venture Capitalist Ries 165

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 6, 2011

Last week, legendary brand positioning expert Al Ries weighed in on Starbucks reported desire to move away from its powerful ‘specialist’ strategy. Al thinks the stock market is pressuring the company for more top-line growth. Market share doubled, and the company went on to enjoy 15 uninterrupted years of earnings growth.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

In The Lean Start-Up , Eric Ries talked about vanity metrics — numbers that create the illusion of success, rather than validate actual progress. They start companies because it's the cool thing to do. And as ubiquitous stories of success spread in social media, these illusions become powerful self-delusions.

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Ries IPO Entrepreneur Maturity 15

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. Service companies might have a handful of clients that agree to be guinea pigs for new ideas.

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Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2012

At a table in front of me was a young man who just received a free copy of Far Cry 3 for letting Ubisoft, the gaming company, shave his head with a mohawk. The real power of the concept of shared purpose is not that it can replace marketing, but rather something deeper. I said permanent. Society is to blame; that is, marketing society.

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Marketing Trout Ries Brand 11

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. HP rise had been remarkable. We had all these ideas. And by making little bets.

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Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Tech start-ups employ the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) concept, made popular by Eric Ries in The Lean Start-Up , to test product hypotheses with minimal resources. Contrary to popular opinion, customers don’t own brands; companies do.

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Brand Ries Entrepreneur Agility 9

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. And plenty of companies have large Twitter and YouTube followings — but they never achieve domination on the scale of Gangnam Style's 623 million views (as of this writing). Other times, the explosion onto the scene is fast and furious.

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Reputation Case Study Ries Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

Mobile, too, is offering ways to connect with consumers who now wield tremendous power in the palm of their hands. Watching an unknown search engine with a cute name become one of the most powerful brands in the world. Eric Ries brought the concept of the Lean Startup into our zeitgeist. Models of leanness.

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Marketing Brand Advertorial Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

This approach to structured experimentation from the entrepreneur’s perspective, popularized by Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup with concrete steps for how to de-risk the venture in the most capital efficient way , has been widely embraced as the gold standard for how to approach the commercialization of radical new ideas. Governance.

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Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

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. Have any ideas we should include on harnessing the power of small victories inside of large organizations?

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Innovation Execution How To Ries 8

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

What I didn’t understand then, was that the beauty and power of a business model is not that it is just a boiled down summary of a business plan, but rather a way to change my psychological approach to building a business. In this article, my description of management 3.0 I include links to their work at the end of this piece. Ash Maurya.

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Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

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. There are two reasons for that. ’” said another.

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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.

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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.

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KPI Innovation Ries Banking 9