HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

"Workforce Skills Upgrade: A New Competitive Advantage" SAP is one of the few companies leading diversity & Inclusion, having implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade since 2017. Stefan Ries: Many individuals with autism spectrum disorders are well-educated and have valuable skills to contribute in the workplace.

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Ries Skills Human Resources Software 76

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

It’s a framework for entrepreneurs, building on “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. But as Kevin Nolan, vice president of technology, said, “With FastWorks we’re learning that speed is our competitive advantage. According to their 2013 Year-in-Review, in the first year, Ries trained 80 coaches exclusively dedicated to FastWorks.

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Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

In a world where competitive advantage is increasingly short-lived, as Columbia Business School professor Rita Gunther McGrath has described , successful companies have to bake innovation into their standard processes. Here’s how to leverage that setback into even greater success. Recognize that innovation requires failure.

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Ries Open-book Competitive Advantage Education 14

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. Competitive advantage comes from innovative ways of creating, capturing, and delivering value. Think beyond the product to the full offering and business model.

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Productivity Products Ries Mintzberg 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

In my eyes, the work Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and others have done to provide a cogent, accessible frame around the academic concepts of emergent strategy is one of the most important contributions to the innovation movement over the past few years. I love Lean. Be prepared for lean''s consequences.

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Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

They’ve also written about it in their coauthored book, Discovery-Driven Growth , and in McGrath’s latest book, The End of Competitive Advantage. 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.

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Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

For a product or service to be counted as innovative at Whirlpool, it must be unique and compelling to the consumer, create a competitive advantage, sit on a migration path that can yield further innovations, and provide consumers with more value than anything else in the market. This definition may seem somewhat generic.

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