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The Dangers of the Minimal Viable Product

Harvard Business Review

One area that deserves particular attention is the notion of the minimal viable product (MVP). Because it's next to impossible to be sure that your idea is good until you bring it into the marketplace, don't waste time trying to fine-tune a product that is destined to be wrong. A company might introduce a product in the marketplace.

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0503 | Julian Birkinshaw: Full Transcript

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I think Henry Mintzberg coined it first. One was that we thought companies should start to think, shall we say, as creatively about the ways they worked as they sometimes do about their products or services. Why shouldn’t we be innovative in the work of management just as we do, we in are the products and technology?

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Stop Comparing Management to Sports

Harvard Business Review

” Building an organization and amassing a competitive advantage work much the same way. As the famous management professor Henry Mintzberg noted: “Think of the organizations you most admire. That is because, ultimately, competitive advantage comes from people, rather than products or patents.

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