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. Ensure you have the right expertise on your team. Success requires fine-tuning more than features and functions. Think beyond the product to the full offering and business model.

Productivity 14

Productivity Products Ries Mintzberg 14

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. To encourage this activity, you give a bunch of your excess widgets to a team and ask that they market them as something new and different.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

One of the ways successful companies consistently create separation from the competitive pack is by critically examining and improving the business model from end to end,” says Chris Shimojima, the CEO of Provide Commerce. Ries points out that at most companies, “the resources flow to the person with the most confident, best plan.

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Company Ries Christensen Innovation 11

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. Nick is a typical manager at a one of the world’s most successful widget companies. Success, right? Make sure that you clearly define what success is for an experiment. Not really.

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Consensus Innovation Company Ries 12

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

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. Here the company was challenged to prove it could repeat its success with its first product. Akamai Going Forward.

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P&L Lewin EBITDA Ries 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Approaches like these overlook the importance of brand strategy as the foundation for a successful launch. Having a brand strategy in place ensures that your internal team is aligned around the same goals, and helps determine how you plan to differentiate your product and win loyal customers.

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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. 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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Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 10

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. Most have had limited success. Over time, this role has changed. Models of leanness.

Marketing 9

Marketing Brand Advertorial Advertising 9

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. Blockbuster capital raises will always occur in unusual situations (e.g., 3 Defenses of Large ICOs.

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Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Define success. Before the venture is launched, decide what success will look like in concrete terms. The reverse income statement forces you to articulate what success would look like and “allows you to see if you’re getting off track really early.”

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Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

“Startnership” success, however, is all too rare. The key common denominator to success isn’t careful planning and comprehensive analysis, but taking fast, cheap, and simple pilots seriously. Successful pilot partnerships favor fast focus over comprehensive planning. Competing in the Future.

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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. The Lean Startup has crystallized many of the ideas fundamental to successful innovation and provided companies with additional ways to understand and make room for rapid iteration, agile development, and in-market testing of new ideas.

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Ries Business Model Entrepreneur Agility 15

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. As Nadella says, customer love is the leading indicator of success. They require their own set of metrics that will enable them to grow and flourish.

CEO 8

CEO Consensus Management Metrics 8

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. How long should a successful small-scale market test be nurtured by the original team before it is passed along to a business unit for a broader roll-out? ’” said another.

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. While doing so will likely improve your team and undoubtedly sends a positive signal, it’s not a magic bullet. Women’s under-representation at such events gets a lot of attention, but people of color are also relatively rare on conference stages. Override your gut.

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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.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8