Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

As Eric Ries and Steve Blank are so quick to point out, innovation requires iteration. In the process of experimentation and iteration, companies will expose how products and services can come together more effectively. Small victories point us in the right direction, and small failures tell us how to change.

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Innovation Execution How To Ries 9

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

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

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

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 want to understand Twitter. They want reports on their Klout scores.

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Ries Brand Early Adopters Media 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Whether disruptive innovation involves a product, service, company, or especially, an individual, Christensen provides a robust theory for learning how to lead. The book outlines the circumstances where you are most powerful, how to deploy these strengths as a leader, and potential pitfalls. A leader leans into the future.

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Books Christensen Ries Disruptive Innovation 13

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

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.

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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. Resource allocation: i ncubating a protected class of ideas.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2012

One does not have to look any further than Al Ries and Jack Trout's bestseller, Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind. As such, we must ask new questions to understand how to take part in the performance: How does my brand connect — socially, philosophically, functionally — with others in the co-creation matrix?

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Marketing Trout Ries Brand 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

So the challenge to managers is determining how to manage the consensus tax. How do you avoid investing in mediocre ideas, but still act with the speed and efficiency that helps you increase your ROI and get more at bats? To drive those same benefits inside our firms, consensus needs to be sought only where necessary.

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Consensus Innovation Company Ries 13

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

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

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. Management 3.0 – a psychological shift. In my management 3.0 Ash Maurya. Steve Blank. Tor Grønsund.

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Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

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

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Earlier this summer, I was still fretting about how to pull off two weeks unplugged.) As Eric Ries points out in his new book The Lean Startup , developing the best code or building the best product in the world is meaningless if your customers don't end up wanting it.

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Ries Budgeting Magazine Conference 22

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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Diversity Ries Creativity Groupthink 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In their quest to upend industry rules, they learn how to distinguish “immutable laws” from “ingrained beliefs.” differ­ent risk cate­go­ries (incremental improvements versus speculative ventures); and differ­ent time horizons. After a while, they all think alike.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8