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. GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/Getty Images.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

For companies seeking to innovate, adapt to change, and maintain an edge in fast-moving, competitive markets, a questioning culture can help ensure that creativity and adaptive thinking flows throughout the organization. Ries points out that at most companies, “the resources flow to the person with the most confident, best plan.

Company 11

Company Ries Christensen Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

So how do you empower your corporate innovators to bring their ideas to market? If they'd been able to pay the same amount for different packaging on the open market, what would the outcome have been? Free access to salespeople, manufacturing capacity and marketing dollars all can inhibit the generation of sustainable business models.

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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Most of the executives I meet with, regardless of their industry, now promote UX as key to their product strategy. They recognize that as UX eclipses traditional brand marketing, they need to be more hands-on with their products. Fortunately, there is a great training ground for new UX leadership: the startup market.

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Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock told me they looked to see how they could take this battery technology to new markets. Marketing plays a catalyst role, providing growth funding. For example, GE incubated an energy storage company (“ Durathon ”), which has gone from the lab to a $100 million business in five years.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

He lays out the theory that has changed the way we think about innovation: disrupters enter the market with low-end or new market innovations and eventually upend an industry. A leader leans into the future.

Books 13

Books Christensen Ries Disruptive Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

In recent years, much has been written about how the Blockchain is poised to transform traditional industries such as banking, real estate, and healthcare. As the markets become more sophisticated, the price at which the ICO happens will reflect this risk and the price of the token will appreciate as the risk is mitigated over time.

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Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

for business models draws on the work of several very bright entrepreneurs and thinkers, including: Alex Osterwalder, Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and Ash Maurya. What about doing market research?” process, some market research can still be done during the idea development stage. In this article, my description of management 3.0

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Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

So you look at past projects, gather and analyze relevant market data, make predictions about how much revenue you’ll be able to generate, decide what resources you’ll need, and set milestones to reach your targets. You’re working on a new venture and you know you’ve got to create a plan to execute it. Not so fast.

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Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

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.” ” That is, targeted tests designed to deliver unambiguous insight into business value. Think “lean pilots.”

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KPI Innovation Ries Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

” Lean startup, popularized by writers and entrepreneurs like Eric Ries and Steve Blank, can deliver big benefits inside big companies. GE vice chairman Beth Comstock spoke to the issues of speed and continual customer input in a 2014 interview, when she said, “We work in these very complex, deep industrial technologies.

Company 8

Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

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 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Likewise, no matter how slick your company’s online idea market, it won’t yield many high-value ideas if your associates haven’t been taught to think like innovators. Within any industry, mental models tend to converge over time. After a while, they all think alike. Innovators, by contrast, are contrarians.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8