Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The goal, says Eric Ries of The Lean Startup fame, is to create a minimum viable product that you’ll fully expect to iterate over time. But stretch goals are just that: things outside your wheelhouse that may work out, or not. The goal, as research shows , should be to make “new and different mistakes.”

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Ries Open-book Competitive Advantage Education 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. They often kill any long-term strategic initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

To encourage company-wide questioning, The Lean Startup ’s Eric Ries says, “It’s not about slogans or putting up posters on the wall — it’s about the systems and the incentives you create to promote the behavior.” Ries points out that at most companies, “the resources flow to the person with the most confident, best plan.

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Company Ries Christensen Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

We developed a strategy to accomplish three goals across this social network: customer development, brand awareness, and traditional marketing and customer acquisition. We approached brand awareness, a traditional marketing goal, in a new way through social networks.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 26, 2018

What follows are some of the thoughts that resonated with me: Eric Ries: “The mistake isn’t releasing something bad. Reid Hoffman: “The network of people around you I what extends your ability to be effective regarding expertise and reaching your goals. The mistake is to launch it and get PR people involved. Get to know smart people.

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Entrepreneur Altman Venture Capitalist Ries 166

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In Mindset , psychologist Carol Dweck writes: "it isn't just our abilities and talent that bring our success — but whether we approach our goals with a fixed or growth mindset." Johnson's book makes it clear: we can only truly lead when we tap into and value both sides of our psyche — male and female.

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Books Christensen Ries Disruptive Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

As I described in a previous post , GE is working with Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author recognized for pioneering the Lean Startup movement. The Lean Startup approach is enabling GE to take “ Agile ” and “ Lean ” methods, which they had been using to improve operations, and apply them to starting businesses.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 6, 2011

Last week, legendary brand positioning expert Al Ries weighed in on Starbucks reported desire to move away from its powerful ‘specialist’ strategy. His passion was Italian-style coffee and his goal was to create the best coffee company in the world through brand and product differentiation. His success is an understatement.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Having a brand strategy in place ensures that your internal team is aligned around the same goals, and helps determine how you plan to differentiate your product and win loyal customers. Approaches like these overlook the importance of brand strategy as the foundation for a successful launch.

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Brand Ries Entrepreneur Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

HP had grown so large, to about $30 billion in sales, that Barnholt and other senior managers felt pinched to reach their double-digit growth goals. To borrow a phrase from Silicon Valley thought leader and author Eric Ries , they "achieved a failure." But by the mid-1990s, the challenges mounted. Their ideas made sense.

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Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2013

But the opposite can be true, too: for instance, Sarah Milstein and Eric Ries designed the 2013 Lean Startup Conference with the intention of inclusion. Today, I want to suggest that dreams are simply goals without an action plan. The 50th anniversary of the March on Washington is upon us, where Martin Luther King Jr.

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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. 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. One of these young entrepreneurs in particular stood out.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Their goal was to help entrepreneurs and those inside established companies adopt a new approach, “one better suited to high-potential projects whose prospects are uncertain at the start.” Next, McGrath says, “you have to think very critically about what has to be true” to realize the profit goals.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

” Lean startup, popularized by writers and entrepreneurs like Eric Ries and Steve Blank, can deliver big benefits inside big companies. You want to get as close to perfection in some of these technologies as possible, but the goal also has to be progress, not just perfection. ’ Sometimes you need to be reminded of that.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Its members need the freedom to decide how to achieve goals while also having the discipline to work in alignment with the organization’s strategy. No one style is better than another, and each car­ries its own set of benefits to a collaborative discus­sion. Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

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