Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

As the world becomes more digitized, generating more information surrounding products and services and speeding up processes, large and small companies in every industry, even manufacturing, are starting to compete more like the software industry, with short product lifecycles and rapid decision-making. We are all lean now — or soon will be.

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Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

In a world where competitive advantage is increasingly short-lived, as Columbia Business School professor Rita Gunther McGrath has described , successful companies have to bake innovation into their standard processes. Understand that failure is an ongoing process. Rather, it’s an ongoing process.

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Ries Open-book Competitive Advantage Education 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

While many innovators hate the term, a devil's advocate plays a very healthy role in a creative process by presenting plausible, alternative (and often less positive) explanations of observed phenomena. As detailed by Steve Blank , Peter Sims , Eric Ries, and others, innovators should follow this mantra as well.

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Innovation Ries Deming Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

Imagine you’re a bright, inquisitive person working for a company with long-established policies and work processes in place (or maybe you don’t have to). Now let’s say you’ve noticed one of those processes is not as efficient or effective as it might be, which leads you to reasonably ask: Why are we doing it this way?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

But the fundamental difference between the two approaches is that agile development actually is an iterative process. They continue to push for design perfection early in the process, causing scope creep, delays, and team conflict. How then, do we begin to acclimate designers to an agile process and get them over this hurdle?

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Agility Ries Constraint Software 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

One of Blank's disciples, Eric Ries , turned his wildly popular Startup Lessons Learned blog into The Lean Startup , one of 2011's best business books. Let real customers use the product and learn from their feedback (Henry Mintzberg dubbed this process "emergent strategy" in an influential 1985 article [PDF] ).

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Productivity Products Ries Mintzberg 14

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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

The refrain is all too familiar: If you want to change the world and get rich in the process, then just go for it. In The Lean Start-Up , Eric Ries talked about vanity metrics — numbers that create the illusion of success, rather than validate actual progress. The problem isn't what the message says, but what it doesn't.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

That includes learning from the outside and striving to adopt certain start-up practices, with a focus on three key management processes: (1) resource allocation that nurtures future businesses, (2) faster-cycle product development, and (3) partnering with start-ups. Resource allocation: i ncubating a protected class of ideas.

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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

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Nick’s company appeared to understand the value of his experiment… but their process got in the way. Consensus can be used to ensure multiple perspectives are looked at in any decision process. Managers in the modern organization need different processes for different types of investments. In the case of Widget 2.0,

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Consensus Innovation Company Ries 13

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. I love Lean. Pick people carefully.

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Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. However, in the process of unleashing this potential, leaders must make sure their innovators develop sustainability.

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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 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.

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Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

They hire 20-somethings to manage the corporate Twitter account, and they are in the process of spending untold dollars on social media monitoring systems. They have marketing departments retaining outside social media consultants. They pay content marketing firms to write company blogs and produce YouTube videos.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

So while failing cheap is crucial, so is failing big: in the process of striving to change the world radically for the better. And to make it happen, they're learning to shed the red tape, meetings, managers, and memos that made industrial-age business such a dreary, dismal drag.

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Hypercompetition Ries Definition Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2013

Because only when you acknowledge that you are blind to an issue, can you begin the process of seeing more clearly. This is a good reminder that often what appears to be a pipeline problem is actually a problem with the selection process itself. Recognizing that you have a bias allows you to design processes that correct for it.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries' book The Lean Start-Up , has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. Without a repeatable product development process, they are doomed to be one-hit wonders. Akamai Going Forward.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In The Lean Start-Up , Eric Ries, a next generation thought leader and a clear successor to Clayton Christensen, provides a scientific approach to managing innovation, whether at a one-person start-up or Fortune 100 company. A leader leans into the future.

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Books Christensen Ries Disruptive Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2012

Suddenly, our minds shift, and we see a process in which time is shared by both sides.oops, I mean performers, who produce something in concert. One does not have to look any further than Al Ries and Jack Trout's bestseller, Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind. I'm really not to blame for viewing marketing as war.

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Marketing Trout Ries Brand 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Following Eric Ries' Lean Start-up methodology, instead of going out and raising VC money to manufacture a new electric automobile, Daniel Kim funded his start-up through pre-orders. The actual process is a mental wrestling match, and prone to fits of desperation. A compelling example of this in the business world is Lit Motors.

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Constraint Innovation Ries Resources 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

As Eric Ries and Steve Blank are so quick to point out, innovation requires iteration. In the process of experimentation and iteration, companies will expose how products and services can come together more effectively. It adds a bit of humility to the process. 3) Measure, validate, repeat.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

As Barnholt recalls, "It was very much a deductive, analytical process to identify a grand set of opportunities." To borrow a phrase from Silicon Valley thought leader and author Eric Ries , they "achieved a failure." They then researched and analyzed the markets, segmented them, and developed products. Sound familiar?

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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. process, some market research can still be done during the idea development stage. In this article, my description of management 3.0 It begins with a different starting point.

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Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

We developed this map after observing a small set of novice users try to complete the process. Similarly, organizations like GE are investing in innovation accelerators that pair product teams with outside experts (like Eric Ries, author of Lean Startup) to coach teams in launching new initiatives with a more entrepreneurial mindset. (We

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

That process might work for conventional or ongoing business lines, but new ventures, which are less predictable, require a different set of planning and control tools. That’s where the discovery-driven planning (DDP) process comes in. Not so fast. In short, too many firms used conventional planning to manage their new ventures.

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Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

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.

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Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 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

MARCH 23, 2012

Ries builds off the teaching of Innovation Master Steve Blank and urges entrepreneurs to "remove waste" from the creation of new businesses by being very scientific in the management of unknowns. The book is very approachable and actionable, using wide ranging examples to describe the importance of experimentation in the innovation process.

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Innovation Ries Mauborgne Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2012

The widespread adoption of Eric Ries 's work beyond Silicon Valley has been a godsend for innovators. At IDEO, we frequently refer to Ries's work to help clients understand approaches to innovation, and believe that we have identified a few helpful best practices that build on the approach defined in The Lean Startup.

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Ries Business Model Entrepreneur Agility 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Extroverts look to other people as their primary means of process­ing information. Introverts tend to process information internally before presenting their results to others. No one style is better than another, and each car­ries its own set of benefits to a collaborative discus­sion. Sensing or intuitive.

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Diversity Ries Creativity Groupthink 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

We work with CEOs of large enterprises who are in the process of refounding their companies, and while coaching them on this process we’ve seen firsthand what works best for them. You don’t need to be Satya Nadella to be a refounder, though.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Since 2012, I’ve co-hosted The Lean Startup Conference with Eric Ries. But because those processes reliably over-represent white male candidates, we approach them differently than most conference hosts. As a leader, commit yourself to improving your selection process. Request help.

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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. One was increased customer loyalty, since customers feel more involved in the development process, and presumably their needs and requests get woven into the product along the way.

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Company Airlines Ries Survey 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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