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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

The innovation research identifies the tyranny of large numbers as a common (and vexing) problem for leaders as companies grow, well documented by Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen in The Innovators Solution , Jim Collins in How the Mighty Fall , and by Scott Anthony on this blog. We had all these ideas.

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Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2013

This was the advice I got from a marketing guru when I asked for his help with titling my second book. As David Burkus recently wrote, innovation isn''t an idea problem, but rather a recognition problem ; a lack of noticing the good ideas already there. This is what that marketing guru was trying to tell me.

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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. What about doing market research?” In this article, my description of management 3.0 you might say. Good point.

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Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

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. magazine, speaking at major conferences, and advising the White House on innovation. Other times, the explosion onto the scene is fast and furious. A while back, I was talking with fellow HBR blogger Boris Groysberg.

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Reputation Case Study Ries Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

For innovation-hungry legacy firms, partnering with a startup can be appealing. With apologies to Tolstoy, all happy start-up partnerships are alike; every unhappy innovation partnership is unhappy in its own way. They don’t seek to assess how well an innovation works; they try to measure how well that innovation works for us.

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KPI Innovation Ries Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

When my publication, Innovation Leader, surveyed 170 executives who work in R&D, strategy, and new product development roles at large public companies, we found that 82% said they’ve already deployed some elements of the lean startup approach. Show customers barely-working products with rough edges?

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