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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. It presents a method for leveraging a set of tools emerging from lean start-up, design thinking, and agile software development.

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On-Demand Manufacturing: The Perfect Way to Minimize Your Risk

Strategy Driven

The buyer or engineer spends time contacting various suppliers to get quotes and answers to various production questions. Furthermore, they must negotiate the price with each manufacturer. This process takes time and manpower. Time to Market. Fortunately, they don’t need to take this route.

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The CEO's Frugal Innovation Agenda

Harvard Business Review

In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda. Frugal innovation is the ability to innovate cost-effectively and sustainably under severe resource constraints. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution. These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains.

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How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business Review

They’ve simply undercut Western competitors by offering cheaper prices. China has not been a huge technology innovator, despite being the world’s second-largest investor in R&D , but Chinese businesses have found ways to use innovations in processes, business models, and customer experience to their disruptive advantage.

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The CEO's Frugal Innovation Agenda

Harvard Business Review

In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda. Frugal innovation is the ability to innovate cost-effectively and sustainably under severe resource constraints. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution. These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains.

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Innovation cycles speed up and time-to-market goes down, and the resulting changes in the value chain compound customer demand for quality.

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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business Review

Given their capabilities, these entrepreneurs take a “do-it-yourself” approach and develop software to support organizational needs. Over the last 15 years, Internet giants have built platforms or utilities on top of the Internet that make innovation easier and faster. It has several key benefits: Speeds time-to-market.