Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

In The Lean Start-Up , Eric Ries talked about vanity metrics — numbers that create the illusion of success, rather than validate actual progress. As founders can attest, what you encounter deep in the start-up trenches will be far from your mental projection and expectations of the future.

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Ries IPO Entrepreneur Maturity 16

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. He was not your standard internet entrepreneur — the student presenting was pitching a project to increase sub-Saharan farm income, by helping farmers shift from traditional crops to rubber trees.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

So you look at past projects, gather and analyze relevant market data, make predictions about how much revenue you’ll be able to generate, decide what resources you’ll need, and set milestones to reach your targets. ” The project leader was reluctant to stop the project since they’d already put $10 million into it.

Planning 9

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

How do you avoid wasting millions, if not billions, on projects destined for failure? Over the past few years, Eric Ries ' lean start-up movement has gained meaningful traction in the entrepreneurial community. So how do you empower your corporate innovators to bring their ideas to market? The answers to these questions aren't simple.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

Without a senior executive taking an active role in a project to overcome organizational antibodies, even the most thought-through plans can fail. As Eric Ries and Steve Blank are so quick to point out, innovation requires iteration. What information is likely to get them interested in your project?

Innovation 9

Innovation Execution How To Ries 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

If Nick made $120,000 a year and he spent just a month trying to drive consensus around the project, the cost of his salary during the month of meetings doubled the cost of the experiment. Consensus didn’t just slow Nick down, it dramatically increased the cost of his test.

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Consensus Innovation Company Ries 13

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

for business models draws on the work of several very bright entrepreneurs and thinkers, including: Alex Osterwalder, Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and Ash Maurya. From this, a detailed plan for execution filled with scope and projections would rise up out of the business ether like Mount Olympus. Sales projections (what are they based on?).

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Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2013

The program behind this was The Op-Ed Project , which scouts, prepares, and connects under-represented experts with editors so their pipelines are full of equally viable ideas from both genders. But this didn''t just happen.

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Ries Conference Diversity Power 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

Eric Ries brought the concept of the Lean Startup into our zeitgeist. From how we initiate a project by establishing metrics and outcomes from the beginning, to being more agile in building programs that can bend, move and iterate as we learn from what the market is telling us (marketing optimization anyone?). Models of leanness.

Marketing 9

Marketing Brand Advertorial Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

Seemingly everyone has seen the results of the book project that Osterwalder led — Business Model Generation — and has seen his "business model canvass" in action. Osterwalder's open-sourced, tool-oriented approach makes him a practitioner's dream.

Innovation 15

Innovation Ries Mauborgne Open-book 15

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. Will business unit leaders look at a project that has generated thousands of dollars of revenue, not millions, and view it as insignificant and low potential?

Company 8

Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

An innovative team needs to be both playful and pro­fessional, and it needs to be able to plan out a project carefully while also accepting that projects don’t al­ways go as planned—and being willing to improvise when unexpected events arise. Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series). Harvard Business Review.

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Diversity Ries Creativity Groupthink 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.” differ­ent risk cate­go­ries (incremental improvements versus speculative ventures); and differ­ent time horizons.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8