CEO Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Al Ries is one of my brand heros. Mostly it was inspiring because I like marketing and social media and this book is at the intersection of those fields. It inspires me to remain active in Social Media. Sometime the Time Management Guy in me questions if it is a good use of time. I love branding. He talks a lot about positioning.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 8, 2018

In Eric Ries’s bestselling book, The Startup Way, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur explains how he helped lead General Electric’s transformation from a stodgy industrial era dinosaur into a lean, entrepreneurial enterprise.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Thanks to those who joined us for our Ask the Expert conversation with Nicola Ries Taggart, coach and creator of the Calm the Chaos journal and card deck. From a personal perspective, this was an incredibly timely conversation filled with lots of practical tips and strategies.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 20, 2014

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 21, 2019

With a wry grin, Eric begins his talk by knocking on the idea of certification: “A certified entrepreneur is a certifiable idea.” This was the perfect opening to a cunningly smart talk that cuts straight through the morass of corporate politics. The author of The Lean Start Up and The Startup Way began his talk.

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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.” Over the course of 25 years working in technology Josh has developed specialities that include Lean UX, interaction design, service design, and user experience design in agile software development environments.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 2, 2017

This easy to understand infographic was created to visualize the Lean Startup methodology from Eric Ries to explain it to others. The methodology helps start-ups and existing companies to be more innovative, efficient, and successful.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 13, 2021

Indeed, the lean startup methodology popularized by Eric Ries has brought into the popular lexicon the pivot, by which startups change tack after experience from the market encourages a new direction to be taken in some way.

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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. The Tragic Fall from Specialist to Generalist: Starbucks, the Latest Victim. by John • June 6, 2011 • Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 2 Comments.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 24, 2016

This is very similar to the idea of a minimum viable product, a key lean startup concept popularized by Eric Ries, author of the bestselling book, The Lean Startup. Continue reading →

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

Stefan Ries, Member of the Executive Board, SAP SE, Chief Human Resources Officer. Lewis, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Lockheed Martin. Peter Fasolo, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer at Johnson & Johnson. This article was published in the April 2019 issue of The HR Digest magazine.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 31, 2021

The importance of the “pivot” has been a fundamental part of the entrepreneurial playbook for much of the near-decade it’s been since Eric Ries first published his groundbreaking The Lean Startup but the ability to adapt has been especially crucial during a pandemic in which so much of what we thought we knew has been tipped upside down.

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RapidStart Leadership

MAY 9, 2017

Eric Ries Click To Tweet. We have to be smart enough to recognize that success can take on different forms. Sometimes the strategy needs to change to allow us to continue the march in the direction of our vision. A pivot is a change in strategy, not vision. Platt was looking for oil but struck salt.

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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. It is an excellent book in many ways and still relevant.

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Rajesh Setty

JULY 16, 2013

entrepreneurship Main Page amplify clarify eric ries gamify identify simplify solidify steve blank verify' Gamifying will accelerate the process of adoption and frictionless transfer of your beliefs about the offering. All the best!

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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." Those metrics are the most common false idols of analytics. Vanity metrics look good but fail the "So what?"

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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.

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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. At IDEO, we frequently refer to Ries's work to help clients understand approaches to innovation, and believe that we have identified a few helpful best practices that build on the approach defined in The Lean Startup.

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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. As we are faced with interim failures in our innovation process, the narrative we construct is key. It's not just that you learn a lesson.

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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. As we are faced with interim failures in our innovation process, the narrative we construct is key. It's not just that you learn a lesson.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

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. Osterwalder's open-sourced, tool-oriented approach makes him a practitioner's dream.

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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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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. Instead, test early and often to ensure you're not wasting your time.

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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. General Electric Operations Strategy'

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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. In fact, in our book Passion & Purpose , several stories from young leaders involved start-ups. The problem isn't what the message says, but what it doesn't.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 22, 2017

“Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door” is a phrase that has inspired generations of innovators and entrepreneurs. Unfortunately, they often find that a better mousetrap is not enough. You also need to find a customer who wants to buy a mousetrap at a price at which you.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 26, 2011

Here is a blog post by my friend Tom Butler-Bowdon, author of the five volumes that comprise the 50 Classics series, published by Nicholas Brealey Publishing. * * * I’m delighted to be blogging for the new UK version of Huffington Post. Have a look at my latest post Before They Were Famous, which reveals [.].

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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. 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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Innovation Excellence

MAY 17, 2016

Stop believing your own publicity. Instead test your biggest and riskiest assumptions quickly with a Minimum Viable Product. Continue reading →

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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.

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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. But innovation of any sort entails risk and trying new things – and that mandates failure. A 100% success rate implies you’re not doing anything new at all.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

And to make it happen, they're learning to shed the red tape, meetings, managers, and memos that made industrial-age business such a dreary, dismal drag.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Over the past few years, Eric Ries ' lean start-up movement has gained meaningful traction in the entrepreneurial community. Transfer pricing inside a company is already a complex issue. But when it comes to innovation, it must be approached even more thoughtfully. Test to learn.

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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. When there is less of a cushion between oneself and failure, innovation becomes a necessity. A compelling example of this in the business world is Lit Motors.

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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.” ” That is, targeted tests designed to deliver unambiguous insight into business value. Think “lean pilots.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

To borrow a phrase from Silicon Valley thought leader and author Eric Ries , they "achieved a failure." And they were all big," Barnholt recalls, "But they all failed! The reason they all failed and the reason they were big is that someone was already there," he says. Their ideas made sense. The technology was great. But they still failed.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Customer Development, a concept popularized by Steve Blank and Eric Ries , calls for spending time in the field with customers to understand their needs and develop product features to meet those needs, as well as to understand the market dynamics themselves.

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