Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. So what happened? In fact, what happened is activist investors.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 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. 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 15

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. After first targeting backup power for data centers, they settled on providing backup power for cell phone towers in countries with unreliable electrical grids, such as in Africa and India.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 10

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. This is what that marketing guru was trying to tell me. This alone is powerful. If you believe that bias is simply an accumulation of culturally accepted norms, then you can recognize your power in shifting those norms.

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Ries Conference Diversity Power 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Eric Ries has recently become fond of saying, "Entrepreneurship is not cool, it's not sexy and it's totally uncomfortable. This cleans out the junk in the startup ecosystem — an ecosystem that powers tomorrow's economic future. It's boring and grueling, and that part is never part of the movie."

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Entrepreneur Ries Hammer Technology 22

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Eric Ries has recently become fond of saying, "Entrepreneurship is not cool, it's not sexy and it's totally uncomfortable. This cleans out the junk in the startup ecosystem — an ecosystem that powers tomorrow's economic future. It's boring and grueling, and that part is never part of the movie."

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Entrepreneur Ries Hammer Technology 21

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Consensus is a powerful tool. When CEOs set out to conquer new markets or undertake billion-dollar acquisitions, we’d hope they’d at least sought out some consensus from their trusted advisors. Again, consensus can be a powerful tool. It’s a powerful tool, but it’s not for every occasion. Innovation'

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Consensus Innovation Company Ries 15

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 6, 2011

by John • June 6, 2011 • Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 2 Comments. 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.

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Ries Brand Hammer Marketing Strategy 122

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. Corporate leaders can take steps to encourage this kind of market-based learning.

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Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

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. The mistake is to launch it and get PR people involved. Rich Barton: “Ideas are cheap. Execution is dear.

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Entrepreneur Altman Venture Capitalist Ries 165

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. We had all these ideas.

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Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

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 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. Ray, too, had her own immersion experience, albeit in Albany, New York, where she started as a food buyer for a gourmet market, eventually teaching 30 minute cooking classes when they couldn't find a chef who would accept their low rates.

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Reputation Case Study Ries Kotter 11

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

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

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.” For example, one startnership pilot successfully got a business unit to write a simple but powerful analytic through its API.

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KPI Innovation Ries Banking 11

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

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

” What we’ve observed is that in most organizations, the innovation power­train is missing several critical components. 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.

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