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096: Bringing the Lean Startup into Your Organization: Leadership in the Age of Uncertainty | with Jeff Dyer

Engaging Leader

Maybe you’ve tried to bring the idea to life, only to have it turn out to be an expensive, time-consuming failure. The new book The Innovator''s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization, by Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer, is a leader’s guide to validating new ideas, refining them, and bringing them to market.

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On-Demand Manufacturing: The Perfect Way to Minimize Your Risk

Strategy Driven

When a startup or small and medium enterprise moves through this process, they often find they detour from the innovation path. Startups and small to medium size enterprises benefit from on-demand manufacturing, as they employ a risk reduction strategy. Time to Market. What are some benefits associated with this option?

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Big Data In Your Shampoo?

Mills Scofield

.: after years of being the market leader in a specific product category, they quickly begin to lose market share, they wanted to introduce their product into a new market. In the case of the former, they typically would want to know why and how could they innovate their current product to regain their position as number one.

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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

Professors of business and corporate strategy (which includes me) research and lecture about the goal of long-term “sustained” competitive advantage, driven by grand plans that mesmerize and seduce the most seasoned leaders and leadership teams. The hard truth is that companies that do not pursue corporate entrepreneurship are doomed.

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The CEO's Frugal Innovation Agenda

Harvard Business Review

In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda. Frugal innovation is the ability to innovate cost-effectively and sustainably under severe resource constraints. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution. These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains.

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How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business Review

China has not been a huge technology innovator, despite being the world’s second-largest investor in R&D , but Chinese businesses have found ways to use innovations in processes, business models, and customer experience to their disruptive advantage. This presents Western companies with a fresh challenge.

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The CEO's Frugal Innovation Agenda

Harvard Business Review

In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda. Frugal innovation is the ability to innovate cost-effectively and sustainably under severe resource constraints. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution. These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains.

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