Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Most of the executives I meet with, regardless of their industry, now promote UX as key to their product strategy. For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. The CEO as Lead Product Designer. They use their products on a daily basis.

Leadership 10

Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

“This requires a leadership team and work force that is always trying to ask the questions that can light up the big honking issues.”. And is it possible to encourage the “right kind” of questions — the ones most likely to lead to productive results? How can a company create an environment where people are more inclined to question?

Company 11

Company Ries Christensen Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Some eager entrepreneurs think their new product is so brilliant and so unlike anything else out there, that they just need to make it available and people will start clamoring over it. Real artists may indeed ship, as Jobs famously exhorted his team , but savvy businesspeople don’t do so without at least a basic brand strategy in place.

Brand 9

Brand Ries Entrepreneur Agility 9

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. Scaling Akamai — Part 1: A Little Fat. The first year of revenue (1999) was $4 million — a remarkable achievement.

P&L 13

P&L Lewin EBITDA Ries 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

In The Lean Start-Up , Eric Ries talked about vanity metrics — numbers that create the illusion of success, rather than validate actual progress. It's being responsible for the people in your team, taking the blame when they screw up, but sharing the credit when they succeed. Your lifestyle is keeping you from diving in.

Ries 16

Ries IPO Entrepreneur Maturity 16

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. As a result, many potentially transformational startups are inflicted with dysfunctional teams as a result of the depleted hiring pool. It's boring and grueling, and that part is never part of the movie."

Entrepreneur 18

Entrepreneur Ries Hammer Technology 18

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. As a result, many potentially transformational startups are inflicted with dysfunctional teams as a result of the depleted hiring pool. It's boring and grueling, and that part is never part of the movie."

Entrepreneur 18

Entrepreneur Ries Hammer Technology 18

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. You don’t want people to start amping up expectations for an early version of your product. Keith Rabois: “First Principle: The team you build is the company you build.” (p.

Entrepreneur 166

Entrepreneur Altman Venture Capitalist Ries 166

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

MARCH 15, 2013

An outsourced idea and creative team that could get the production done at a cost that was less than what it would cost the brand to have a permanent staff in place. Eric Ries brought the concept of the Lean Startup into our zeitgeist. Not products. An agency used to act as the executional arm of the marketing department.

Marketing 9

Marketing Brand Advertorial Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

We hope they’d be as sure as possible that their teams are ready, that their strategies are sound, and that they’d done their diligence. If Nick had a small team working for him, seeking consensus may have quadrupled the cost of the experiment. The problem with consensus is that it’s expensive. Again, consensus can be a powerful tool.

Consensus 13

Consensus Innovation Company Ries 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

These ICOs are nearly always held when a project is at an immature stage of development akin to a seed stage startup — when it is testing hypotheses around its consumer value proposition and forming a founding team. To generate publicity that allows them to solicit broad feedback on their beta product. 3 Defenses of Large ICOs.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Discovery-driven planning offers a lower-risk way to move a product forward in the face of “what is unknown, uncertain, and not yet obvious to the competition” so that firms can “learn as much as possible as cheaply as possible” while pursuing new ventures. “One out of every six garments sold in the U.S.

Planning 9

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

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.” ” That is, targeted tests designed to deliver unambiguous insight into business value. .”

KPI 9

KPI Innovation Ries Banking 9

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.

Ries 16

Ries Business Model Entrepreneur Agility 16

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?

Company 8

Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

They are for the most part young firms led by founders and their teams, bold leaders who continually prioritize new growth over efficiencies to their core businesses. Embrace Productive Failure. Refounders who think in terms of TAP and who bet on their convictions use productive failure to guide them to the right solutions.

CEO 8

CEO Consensus Management Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Inventive thinking in a team setting is fueled by a blend of talents, skills, and traits that rarely all exist in a single person—such as an ability to see problems through fresh eyes, a knack for understanding a frustrated customer’s complaints, or a flair for turning a creative idea into a profitable innova­tion.

Diversity 8

Diversity Ries Creativity Groupthink 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By comparison, think of the long strides many businesses have made in reengineering their supply chains, boosting product quality, and rolling out lean six sigma. Innovators see their organization, and the world around it, as a portfolio of skills and assets that can be endlessly recombined into new products and busi­nesses.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8