Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Nick is a typical manager at a one of the world’s most successful widget companies. He’s well respected, but far from the top of his organization. But like most hierarchical organizations, Nick’s managers and their managers expect to be informed of his ideas before they make their way to the big boss. Success, right?

Consensus 13

Consensus Innovation Company Ries 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

If you're willing to acknowledge the barriers in your way, there are a few tried and true levers you can pull to ensure your intrapreneurial endeavors are better positioned for success. If the antibodies already exist within your organization to destroy new endeavors, you need to go outside of the organization to overcome them.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

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.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

Just as economies of scale might be loosely said to competitively refer to, roughly speaking, the savings, investment, and ultimately returns that an organization realizes from greater output than its rivals, so. The Valley is learning to minimize the costs of failure — but what about maximizing the benefits?

Hypercompetition 15

Hypercompetition Ries Definition Bottom-up 15

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. The language has been widely adopted, and that includes some folks who haven''t yet had the chance to read Ries'' work or digest the ideas behind it. One of these young entrepreneurs in particular stood out.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

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. Malcolm Gladwell references their experience in his famous "10,000 hours" argument in Outliers: The Story of Success.) Her fan base was growing, a necessary prerequisite for later widespread success.

Reputation 8

Reputation Case Study Ries Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. Organic growth depends on discovering breakthrough ideas, leveraging technology, and getting closer to customers.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Approaches like these overlook the importance of brand strategy as the foundation for a successful launch. Tech start-ups employ the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) concept, made popular by Eric Ries in The Lean Start-Up , to test product hypotheses with minimal resources. This point of view should guide everything the organization does.

Brand 9

Brand Ries Entrepreneur Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Given Apple''s success, it is not surprising to see many executives following Jobs'' lead. The nitty-gritty of product design has become a badge of pride in many organizations, like Facebook, which has embraced a "learn by making" executive culture. He was right there in the middle of it. All of it.".

Leadership 10

Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

Eric Ries brought the concept of the Lean Startup into our zeitgeist. Most have had limited success. Service-based companies selling products has not been a wildly successful endeavor for the majority of marketing agencies. Here are five new attributes that I think marketing agencies will need to develop to survive: 1.

Marketing 9

Marketing Brand Advertorial Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

In this framing, the native tokens issued through the ICO are the means through which users transact between a decentralized network of participants without the need for any central organization or platform. One of the fundamental elements of commercializing new ventures is the high failure rate they face.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

With due diligence and decent design, these partnerships can go beyond good results and energize organizations that have become too comfortable or complacent with everyday routines. “Startnership” success, however, is all too rare. Successful pilot partnerships favor fast focus over comprehensive planning.

KPI 9

KPI Innovation Ries Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

As Eric Ries teaches in his books The Lean Startup and The Startup Way , productive failure entails moving forward quickly, understanding that you will be wrong part of the time, learning from your failures, and then using those learnings to correct course and move forward to success. Develop a Portfolio Strategy.

CEO 8

CEO Consensus Management Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

It’d be hard to choose two words that feel less descriptive of life inside a large organization than “lean” and “startup.” ” Lean startup, popularized by writers and entrepreneurs like Eric Ries and Steve Blank, can deliver big benefits inside big companies. Ramazan Balay.

Company 8

Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Since 2012, I’ve co-hosted The Lean Startup Conference with Eric Ries. Studies show that bringing in decision-makers from under-represented groups will help your organization attract more similar people. For conference hosts, however, past performance need not be an indicator of future results. Be deeply transparent. Override your gut.

Conference 11

Conference Stage-Gate Proposal Ries 11

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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8