Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

For companies seeking to innovate, adapt to change, and maintain an edge in fast-moving, competitive markets, a questioning culture can help ensure that creativity and adaptive thinking flows throughout the organization. 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

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Here’s how to leverage that setback into even greater success. 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. Recognize that innovation requires failure. But innovation of any sort entails risk and trying new things – and that mandates failure.

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Ries Open-book Competitive Advantage Education 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Every business-to-business CEO and CMO I've met — most of whom came of age prior to the social media era — is trying to understand how to leverage social media to grow their business. They have marketing departments retaining outside social media consultants. They want to understand Twitter.

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Ries Brand Early Adopters Media 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. Corporate leaders can take steps to encourage this kind of market-based learning.

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Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

A fundamental challenge of any firm – especially a huge global company such as GE – is how to balance nurturing tomorrow’s future businesses, with the resource demands for running and improving today’s operations. Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock told me they looked to see how they could take this battery technology to new markets.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

He lays out the theory that has changed the way we think about innovation: disrupters enter the market with low-end or new market innovations and eventually upend an industry. Whether disruptive innovation involves a product, service, company, or especially, an individual, Christensen provides a robust theory for learning how to lead.

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Books Christensen Ries Disruptive Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

We need to start the conversation now about how to handle this double-edged sword, so that the soul of Silicon Valley doesn't get vaporized from the heat of the limelight. Eric Ries has recently become fond of saying, "Entrepreneurship is not cool, it's not sexy and it's totally uncomfortable. Why is it a double-edged sword?

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Entrepreneur Ries Hammer Technology 18

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

We need to start the conversation now about how to handle this double-edged sword, so that the soul of Silicon Valley doesn't get vaporized from the heat of the limelight. Eric Ries has recently become fond of saying, "Entrepreneurship is not cool, it's not sexy and it's totally uncomfortable. Why is it a double-edged sword?

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Entrepreneur Ries Hammer Technology 18

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

When CEOs set out to conquer new markets or undertake billion-dollar acquisitions, we’d hope they’d at least sought out some consensus from their trusted advisors. Instead of driving consensus, “the market breaks the vicious circle [of having to convince a variety of stakeholders].” Consensus is a powerful tool.

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Consensus Innovation Company Ries 13

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

You have a great business idea but you are not sure how to develop it. for business models draws on the work of several very bright entrepreneurs and thinkers, including: Alex Osterwalder, Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and Ash Maurya. What about doing market research?” Management 3.0 – a psychological shift. In my management 3.0

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Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

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. But occasionally, there is a glimpse into the process of how someone can emerge, quickly and powerfully, into the public consciousness. Other times, the explosion onto the scene is fast and furious. Skills development comes first.

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Reputation Case Study Ries Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

This approach to structured experimentation from the entrepreneur’s perspective, popularized by Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup with concrete steps for how to de-risk the venture in the most capital efficient way , has been widely embraced as the gold standard for how to approach the commercialization of radical new ideas.

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Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

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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Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

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.” How to make your company more nimble and responsive. How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

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KPI Innovation Ries Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Likewise, no matter how slick your company’s online idea market, it won’t yield many high-value ideas if your associates haven’t been taught to think like innovators. In their quest to upend industry rules, they learn how to distinguish “immutable laws” from “ingrained beliefs.”

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