HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

SAP SE Executive Board Member and Chief Human Resources Officer, Stefan Ries explains how he is utilizing AI and Big Data to advance HR analytics as the foundations for a successful global future. Stefan Ries: In 2017, SAP started a transformation of our Services & Support Business as we had learned that the demand for service and support for our customers has been changing. Stefan Ries: The old days of HR are over.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 1, 2012

Guest Post by Laura Ries (learn more about Laura at the end of this article): Talk about “having it all.” ” That was 18 years ago and together we have built the Ries & Ries “marketing” brand, including the publication of five books on the subject.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2012

I am deeply indebted to Al Ries and Jack Trout for advancing branding with their classic book, Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind , in which they introduce the concept of positioning, defined as the brand perception residing in a person's mind. The risks that Ries and Trout describe are real but, in most contexts, they can be mitigated or removed entirely.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 20, 2014

Uncategorized Eric Ries Louis V. According to mckinsey.com readers, these were the most popular articles during the Second Quarter of 2014. Here’s a direct link to reading any/all of them. Change leader, change thyself: Anyone who pulls the organization in new directions must look inward as well as outward. More to follow each, 1-10] 2. The seven traits of […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 28, 2012

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Eric Ries Crown Business (2011) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 6, 2011

Last week, legendary brand positioning expert Al Ries weighed in on Starbucks reported desire to move away from its powerful ‘specialist’ strategy. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. Leadership. Branding. The Tragic Fall from Specialist to Generalist: Starbucks, the Latest Victim.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 29, 2011

Here is an excerpt from another thoughtful and thought-provoking article written by Umair Haque for the Harvard Business Review blog. It is worth noting that Marcus Buckingham recently ranked Umair #1 among his favorite business bloggers. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to [.].

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2017

The Startup Way : How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture and Drive Long-Term Growth by Eric Ries. Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in October. The Power of Moments : Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. The Anticipatory Organization : Turn Disruption and Change into Opportunity and Advantage by Daniel Burrus. Finding My Virginity by Richard Branson.

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Rajesh Setty

JULY 16, 2013

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

The Lean Startup – by Eric Ries. I am pleased to present the first More Human Leadership Podcast , a new regular feature at TerryStarbucker.com.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Which is why most of us really suck at telling our sto­ries. My teenage son Matt had bonked a big test, part of his ongoing prob­lems with homework and tests. And I was pissed off beyond belief. I was done with the games. I told him “the party was %$#@! That I owned him now.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 26, 2018

What follows are some of the thoughts that resonated with me: Eric Ries: “The mistake isn’t releasing something bad.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Eric Ries called their most recent book, Sense & Respond , “A crucial framework for the modern world of business.”

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 12, 2011

This definition comes from Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. Ries gives a detailed personal example of this concept from his work at IMVU. Eric Ries does a great job of bringing out important theories and models that will help you succeed whether you’re starting a new company or creating new products at an established corporation. —.

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

Stefan Ries, Member of the Executive Board, SAP SE, Chief Human Resources Officer. Never have HR leaders had to handle so much change so rapidly. The modern economy demands transforming companies endlessly, necessitating profound changes in the workforce and talent strategy. These forces are reshaping the role of HR and putting pressure on the HR Executive to become much more than a game changer and the leader who enables business strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Eric Ries , entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School, explains how to find the human causes of technical problems. Leadership Operations

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RapidStart Leadership

MAY 9, 2017

Eric Ries Click To Tweet. With obstacles, frustrations and nay-sayers, how do you find the persistence you need to succeed? It’s one thing to have a great idea or an inspiring vision. Sticking with it until you are successful can be an entirely different matter.

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CEO Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Al Ries is one of my brand heros. CEO Blog - Time Leadership Monday, December 27, 2010 Wiki Brands According the the NY Time is a good season to forgive. I agree. Beautiful snow in NY today. Over a foot. Storm is mostly done now. Just blowing and digging out.

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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. Eric Ries. Management 3.0 – a psychological shift. You have a great business idea but you are not sure how to develop it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2011

Yet several of them — Seth Godin, Eric Ries, and Gary Vaynerchuk — have recently published traditional, paper books. The key: Godin, Ries, and Vaynerchuk are all practicing what they preach. Meanwhile, Eric Ries, is using his new book, The Lean Startup , to experiment with the marketing principles he espouses in its pages. Are books dead?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

They're what Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup , calls "vanity metrics.". That's what Ries calls an "engine of growth.". Seek out what Ries refers to as "actionable metrics."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2012

The widespread adoption of Eric Ries 's work beyond Silicon Valley has been a godsend for innovators. As Ries writes, some entrepreneurs hear "minimum viable" product as "smallest imaginable" product.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

It's about learning the right kind of lesson, or what Lean Startup guru Eric Ries describes as validated learning. Learning is the essential unit of progress for start-ups," writes Ries. You've started a company and it goes belly-up.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

It's about learning the right kind of lesson, or what Lean Startup guru Eric Ries describes as validated learning. Learning is the essential unit of progress for start-ups," writes Ries. You've started a company and it goes belly-up.

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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.” artpartner-images/Getty Images. For innovation-hungry legacy firms, partnering with a startup can be appealing. Relatively small sums of time and money can quickly yield generous returns.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

It’s a framework for entrepreneurs, building on “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. According to their 2013 Year-in-Review, in the first year, Ries trained 80 coaches exclusively dedicated to FastWorks. GE is an ideal laboratory for applying Lean practices because of its scale,” Ries says. We are all lean now — or soon will be.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

Eric Ries. Ries builds off the teaching of Innovation Master Steve Blank and urges entrepreneurs to "remove waste" from the creation of new businesses by being very scientific in the management of unknowns. A workshop attendee asked me this seemingly simple question: "So, what else should I read to learn more about innovation?". It's a hard question to answer because there is so much high-quality material out there.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

As detailed by Steve Blank , Peter Sims , Eric Ries, and others, innovators should follow this mantra as well. I love my three young children immensely. So it's hard for me to be fully rational about them. Of course they are the smartest, the best looking, and the most athletic. I'm not alone — all parents are irrational. We lose sleep worrying about things we can't control and take pride in ridiculously small achievements we had nothing to do with.

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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. Ramazan Balay.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

Al Ries and Jack Trout capture the essence of this model in their classic book Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind. The way we think about brands need to change. In the past, they were objects or concepts. You had a relationship with a brand.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. In response to Ries’s book , GE adopted lean methods and built its Fastworks program around them. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/Getty Images. Jeff Immelt ran GE for 16 years.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

No one style is better than another, and each car­ries its own set of benefits to a collaborative discus­sion.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Eric Ries has recently become fond of saying, "Entrepreneurship is not cool, it's not sexy and it's totally uncomfortable. There's no doubt technology entrepreneurship is becoming its own kind of celebrity.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Eric Ries has recently become fond of saying, "Entrepreneurship is not cool, it's not sexy and it's totally uncomfortable. There's no doubt technology entrepreneurship is becoming its own kind of celebrity.

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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. Imagine you’re a bright, inquisitive person working for a company with long-established policies and work processes in place (or maybe you don’t have to).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Following Eric Ries' Lean Start-up methodology, instead of going out and raising VC money to manufacture a new electric automobile, Daniel Kim funded his start-up through pre-orders. While dreaming and disrupting has unfettered me in many ways, it has shackled me in others.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

As the team crept closer to the target response rate, they had built not only a consistent cadence of build-measure-learn (Eric Ries's Lean Startup validation cycle ) but a more collaborative process that used data, rather than subjective executive decree or completion of a random set of features, to determine their work and success. Software development is a frenzied decathlon of activity, constantly pressed on all sides by resource constraints, budgets and deadlines.

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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. It's been a banner year for start-ups. With the JOBS Act , the rise of international accelerators , the upcoming Facebook IPO , and the mind-blowing $1 billion Instagram acquisition , you can be sure that droves of young, ambitious founders will be jumping on the start-up bandwagon.

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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. Last month, I learned what Dian Fossey must have felt like in Gorillas in the Mist , surrounded by mysterious creatures and unknown dangers, and yet compelled to edge ever closer. On my right in full costume was someone outfitted as an adorable, and somehow huggable, green hammerhead robot.in a dress. (I

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

One of Blank's disciples, Eric Ries , turned his wildly popular Startup Lessons Learned blog into The Lean Startup , one of 2011's best business books. A movement originating from the United States' West Coast has sought to transform the creation of new businesses from an art to a science. The intellectual leader of the movement is Steve Blank , a serial entrepreneur who now teaches at Stanford and the University of California at Berkeley.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

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. The value of failure has become a mantra in Silicon Valley, with the rise of events like FailCon , a conference “for startup founders to study their own and others’ failures and prepare for success.” Failure, the thinking goes, is an intense form of hands-on education that — when done right — enables you to learn quickly and grow.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2011

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. I recently got back from a month's vacation — the longest I've ever taken, and a shocking indulgence for an American. Earlier this summer, I was still fretting about how to pull off two weeks unplugged.)

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Tech start-ups employ the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) concept, made popular by Eric Ries in The Lean Start-Up , to test product hypotheses with minimal resources. Sometimes it seems like Steve Jobs’ notorious reality distortion field has extended to all of Silicon Valley.

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