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Bureaucracy Can Drain Your Company’s Energy. Agile Can Restore It.

Harvard Business Review

About two-thirds of agile practitioners report higher team morale, increased productivity, greater ability to manage changing priorities, and faster time to market than they were experiencing before. It drives continuous improvement as teams attack constraint after constraint in pursuit of perfection. We clarify goals.

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NewTV Is the Antithesis of a Lean Startup. Can It Work?

Harvard Business Review

Because the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. The mantra of “ first-mover advantage ,” the idea that winners are the ones who are the first entrants in their markets, became the conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley.

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The CEO's Frugal Innovation Agenda

Harvard Business Review

Frugal innovation is the ability to innovate cost-effectively and sustainably under severe resource constraints. Based on our research, we suggest that CEOs eager to do more with less drive systemic changes across their entire organization — focusing their change management efforts on three functions: R&D, marketing, and sales.

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The CEO's Frugal Innovation Agenda

Harvard Business Review

Frugal innovation is the ability to innovate cost-effectively and sustainably under severe resource constraints. Based on our research, we suggest that CEOs eager to do more with less drive systemic changes across their entire organization — focusing their change management efforts on three functions: R&D, marketing, and sales.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. Performing market assessments. So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role? Running design sprints. Company Fit.

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Lean Doesn’t Always Create the Best Products

Harvard Business Review

As a practitioner of a design-led form of product development, and in my own research and writing about an empathetic approach to product design, I’m overtly critical of the Lean manifesto. The buds of innovation are fragile, and are easily squashed by critique or a view of the competitive market environment. But what is lost?