Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

In 2010, one of us was sitting in a room at the Harvard Business School with Eric Ries and a number of budding entrepreneurs. He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. To us, there are few better examples at demonstrating the power of the Lean Startup.

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Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

One minute, you've never heard of Eric Ries , and the next he's on the cover of Inc. Reading the case study, I realized Ray's experience provides a perfect template for the elusive process — which any professional can learn from — of how to develop a world-class reputation and become dominant in your field.

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Reputation Case Study Ries Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Other start-ups develop a core technology that has myriad possible uses and they’re not quite sure which will be most appealing, so they plan to just put it out on the market and let customers decide. It may be tempting to skip brand development in the rush to get a new product to market. what we believe in – our defining values.

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Brand Ries Entrepreneur Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

These ICOs are nearly always held when a project is at an immature stage of development akin to a seed stage startup — when it is testing hypotheses around its consumer value proposition and forming a founding team. This focused attention from developers has the added benefit of crowdsourcing feedback on the beta version of the project.

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Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

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. That''s not right.

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Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

Mobile, too, is offering ways to connect with consumers who now wield tremendous power in the palm of their hands. Watching an unknown search engine with a cute name become one of the most powerful brands in the world. Here are five new attributes that I think marketing agencies will need to develop to survive: 1.

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Marketing Brand Advertorial Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

They then researched and analyzed the markets, segmented them, and developed products. If the idea got far enough, they developed marketing campaigns, sales strategies, and launched it. Possibilities included areas like flat screen TVs, uninterruptable power supplies, or smart utility monitoring of homes. Sound familiar?

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Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

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. And you start by developing the simplest working version of your idea.

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Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

As Eric Ries and Steve Blank are so quick to point out, innovation requires iteration. They can develop a better understanding of their value proposition and tailor the business models of innovative offerings before wide-scale launches. These are by no means comprehensive. But hopefully they are helpful. What do you think?

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Innovation Execution How To Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

For example, I'm sure that most innovation practitioners wouldn't put baseball researcher Bill James on their list, but his mission to find patterns, develop theories, and overturn orthodoxy has greatly influenced my own thinking. Lindegaard has spent the last few years developing practical guidance about "open innovation."

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Innovation Ries Mauborgne Open-book 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

You’re probably familiar with the “minimum viable product” of Eric Ries’ Lean Start-Up fame; but here I’m talking about the acronymically identical “minimum viable pilot.” For example, one startnership pilot successfully got a business unit to write a simple but powerful analytic through its API.

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KPI Innovation Ries Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

When my publication, Innovation Leader, surveyed 170 executives who work in R&D, strategy, and new product development roles at large public companies, we found that 82% said they’ve already deployed some elements of the lean startup approach. A faster cycle time for developing ideas.

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Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

” What we’ve observed is that in most organizations, the innovation power­train is missing several critical components. What makes it useful, though, is the understanding that has developed over time as these criteria have been used to determine which ideas are truly innovative and which aren’t.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8