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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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IT on Steroids: The Benefits (and Risks) of Accelerating Technology

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to innovation in industries with strategically narrow windows of opportunities, speed is everything. This quickening pace — what academics and journalists have called innovation on steroids — is beginning to reach IT departments. This simple tactic is seemingly backed up by the research.