Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

They feel unduly proud when their team does something without needing their help. As detailed by Steve Blank , Peter Sims , Eric Ries, and others, innovators should follow this mantra as well. Setting early deadlines, consciously constraining funding, and keeping teams lean can help to force necessary course corrections.

Innovation 13

Innovation Ries Deming Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Few members of the team are harder hit by this reality than the user experience and design staff. The team defines, designs, develops, tests, finds a bunch of things wrong, and ships the product anyway. The team defines, designs, develops, tests, finds a bunch of things wrong, and ships the product anyway. Parties are thrown.

Agility 13

Agility Ries Constraint Software 13

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.”. Ries points out that at most companies, “the resources flow to the person with the most confident, best plan. How can a company create an environment where people are more inclined to question?

Company 11

Company Ries Christensen Innovation 11

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.

Ries 16

Ries IPO Entrepreneur Maturity 16

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. I'm a huge fan of this work and suggest that all innovators study the movement closely.

Productivity 14

Productivity Products Ries Mintzberg 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

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. Your team comes up with a model that's wildly successful; their excess widgets sell like hotcakes. Imagine you want a group inside your company to figure out new ways to sell your excess widgets.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

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. Keith Rabois: “First Principle: The team you build is the company you build.” (p. The mistake is to launch it and get PR people involved. At that point, it’s actually quite valuable to have people who are diverse.” (p.

Entrepreneur 166

Entrepreneur Altman Venture Capitalist Ries 166

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

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.

Consensus 13

Consensus Innovation Company Ries 13

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. No one wants to go down in history like the team at PARC.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

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. 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

JULY 16, 2013

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 Along the way, any semblance of a coherent user experience is lost.

Leadership 10

Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 10

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. I have been thinking lately about how hard it is to scale start-ups.

P&L 13

P&L Lewin EBITDA Ries 13

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. An agency used to act as the executional arm of the marketing department. 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.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The team had specified what size they anticipated the market would be by year five, a target number spelled out in the spreadsheets at the back of the plan. After the original idea was published, in 1995, it was picked up by Steve Blank, and then by Eric Ries, and became the foundation of the lean startup movement.

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. Competing in the Future.

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

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

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. Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Berkshire Hathaway now top the list, with Alibaba, Facebook, and Tencent close behind.

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.

Conference 11

Conference Stage-Gate Proposal Ries 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

differ­ent risk cate­go­ries (incremental improvements versus speculative ventures); and differ­ent time horizons. Obviously, it makes little sense to hold leaders accountable for innovation if they haven’t been trained and coached to encourage innovation within their own teams.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8