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What the Marketing Agency of the Future Will Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

Eric Ries brought the concept of the Lean Startup into our zeitgeist. From how we initiate a project by establishing metrics and outcomes from the beginning, to being more agile in building programs that can bend, move and iterate as we learn from what the market is telling us (marketing optimization anyone?). Models of leanness.

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The New Psychology of Business Models

Ask Atma

for business models draws on the work of several very bright entrepreneurs and thinkers, including: Alex Osterwalder, Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and Ash Maurya. From this, a detailed plan for execution filled with scope and projections would rise up out of the business ether like Mount Olympus. Advertising revenues. A/B testing.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.” differ­ent risk cate­go­ries (incremental improvements versus speculative ventures); and differ­ent time horizons.