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Lean startup, lean company

Lead on Purpose

This definition comes from Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. Validated learning: “Startups exist to learn how to build a sustainable business.”. Ries gives a detailed personal example of this concept from his work at IMVU.

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0807 | How Successful Organizations Respond to Customers with Josh Seidan

LDRLB

Over the course of 25 years working in technology Josh has developed specialities that include Lean UX, interaction design, service design, and user experience design in agile software development environments. Eric Ries called their most recent book, Sense & Respond , “A crucial framework for the modern world of business.”

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How GE Stays Young

Harvard Business Review

A fundamental challenge of any firm – especially a huge global company such as GE – is how to balance nurturing tomorrow’s future businesses, with the resource demands for running and improving today’s operations. Resource allocation: i ncubating a protected class of ideas.

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The New Psychology of Business Models

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You have a great business idea but you are not sure how to develop it. model, startups will have more success if they adopt lean and agile business development principles, where failing fast is the premium strategy and the lean business model reigns supreme. Programmers, UX/AI, MBA, agile product/project manager, other specialists….

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In Big Companies, Lean Is Only One Piece of the Puzzle

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, one of us was sitting in a room at the Harvard Business School with Eric Ries and a number of budding entrepreneurs. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. 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.