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. Because only when you acknowledge that you are blind to an issue, can you begin the process of seeing more clearly. This is what that marketing guru was trying to tell me. This alone is powerful.

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Ries Conference Diversity Power 10

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. 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. Leadership weds the two.

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Books Christensen Ries Disruptive Innovation 13

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

MARCH 22, 2011

They worked on numerous initiatives in large, growing markets that were adjacent to or somewhat related to HP's existing business. But they only looked at opportunities in what were already billion dollar markets. They then researched and analyzed the markets, segmented them, and developed products. Sound familiar?

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Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

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. But occasionally, there is a glimpse into the process of how someone can emerge, quickly and powerfully, into the public consciousness. But there's nonetheless a general order to the process. Skills development comes first.

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Reputation Case Study Ries Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Some observers have pointed out that blockchain projects may have an inherent incentive and strategic reason to be more aggressive in raising capital earlier in the experimentation process. In the early stages of a venture, centralization can be very powerful as it allows for speed, focus and collaborative effort towards one direction.

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Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 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.” There should be minimal interference with and/or demands made upon ongoing systems and processes. Think “lean pilots.”

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KPI Innovation Ries Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

It turns out that many aspects of lean startup, like showing rough prototypes to customers before you’ve invested lots of time and money, iterating based on their feedback, and letting data prove or disprove your hunches, all have powerful appeal inside big companies, where endless meetings and executive approvals often bog down innovation.

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Company Airlines Ries Survey 8