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." MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
After the original idea was published, in 1995, it was picked up by Steve Blank, and then by Eric Ries, and became the foundation of the lean startup movement. You’re working on a new venture and you know you’ve got to create a plan to execute it. 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. Right? MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
entrepreneurship Main Page amplify clarify eric ries gamify identify simplify solidify steve blank verify Reading about startups and trying to build one is like reading a book and jumping into the battleground to fight. MORE
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). MORE
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 […]. MORE
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. MORE
Eric Ries brought the concept of the Lean Startup into our zeitgeist. It's a murky, unclear future for the marketing agency, but one thing is for certain: things are changing at an exponential pace. An agency used to act as the executional arm of the marketing department. An outsourced idea and creative team that could get the production done at a cost that was less than what it would cost the brand to have a permanent staff in place. Over time, this role has changed. MORE
Since 2012, I’ve co-hosted The Lean Startup Conference with Eric Ries. Many business conferences are notable not only for the prominent people on stage, but also for those who are missing. For instance, at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland this week, fewer than 18% of the speakers are women. Women’s under-representation at such events gets a lot of attention, but people of color are also relatively rare on conference stages. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
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. MORE
Similarly, organizations like GE are investing in innovation accelerators that pair product teams with outside experts (like Eric Ries, author of Lean Startup) to coach teams in launching new initiatives with a more entrepreneurial mindset. (We MORE
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. —. MORE
” Lean startup, popularized by writers and entrepreneurs like Eric Ries and Steve Blank, can deliver big benefits inside big companies. Ramazan Balay. MORE
As I described in a previous post , GE is working with Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author recognized for pioneering the Lean Startup movement. GE is an icon of management best practices. Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. MORE
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? MORE
No one style is better than another, and each carries its own set of benefits to a collaborative discussion. MORE
The Lean Startup – by Eric Ries. I am pleased to present the first More Human Leadership Podcast , a new regular feature at TerryStarbucker.com. MORE
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. Every business-to-business CEO and CMO I've met — most of whom came of age prior to the social media era — is trying to understand how to leverage social media to grow their business. They want to understand Twitter. MORE
In The Lean Start-Up , Eric Ries, a next generation thought leader and a clear successor to Clayton Christensen, provides a scientific approach to managing innovation, whether at a one-person start-up or Fortune 100 company. MORE
Whether it was Rita McGrath explaining the importance of identifying risk in inherently risky ventures, Rosabeth Moss Kanter encouraging leaders to let their small experiments proliferate, or Eric Ries and Steve Blank teaching us the value of systematic experimentation and innovation accounting, the message has been clear: constantly testing new ideas is vital in the search for organic growth. Consensus is a powerful tool. MORE
Eric Ries , entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School, explains how to find the human causes of technical problems. Leadership Operations MORE
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. MORE
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 [.]. MORE
But the opposite can be true, too: for instance, Sarah Milstein and Eric Ries designed the 2013 Lean Startup Conference with the intention of inclusion. "As a brown woman, your chances of being seen and heard in the world are next to nothing," he said. MORE
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. MORE
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.” MORE
In my eyes, the work Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and others have done to provide a cogent, accessible frame around the academic concepts of emergent strategy is one of the most important contributions to the innovation movement over the past few years. I love Lean. MORE
Eric Ries called their most recent book, Sense & Respond , “A crucial framework for the modern world of business.” MORE
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. MORE
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 [.]. MORE
In 2010, one of us was sitting in a room at the Harvard Business School with Eric Ries and a number of budding entrepreneurs. The language has been widely adopted, and that includes some folks who haven''t yet had the chance to read Ries'' work or digest the ideas behind it. MORE
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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.
Rajesh Setty
JULY 16, 2013
entrepreneurship Main Page amplify clarify eric ries gamify identify simplify solidify steve blank verify Reading about startups and trying to build one is like reading a book and jumping into the battleground to fight.
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.”
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.
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 [.].
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
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 […].
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.
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. —.
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.
LDRLB
FEBRUARY 27, 2017
Eric Ries called their most recent book, Sense & Respond , “A crucial framework for the modern world of business.”
The Atman Group
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.
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.
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.
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."
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?
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 16, 2013
Similarly, organizations like GE are investing in innovation accelerators that pair product teams with outside experts (like Eric Ries, author of Lean Startup) to coach teams in launching new initiatives with a more entrepreneurial mindset. (We
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 17, 2012
In The Lean Start-Up , Eric Ries, a next generation thought leader and a clear successor to Clayton Christensen, provides a scientific approach to managing innovation, whether at a one-person start-up or Fortune 100 company.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 28, 2013
But the opposite can be true, too: for instance, Sarah Milstein and Eric Ries designed the 2013 Lean Startup Conference with the intention of inclusion. "As a brown woman, your chances of being seen and heard in the world are next to nothing," he said.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 15, 2013
Eric Ries brought the concept of the Lean Startup into our zeitgeist. It's a murky, unclear future for the marketing agency, but one thing is for certain: things are changing at an exponential pace. An agency used to act as the executional arm of the marketing department. An outsourced idea and creative team that could get the production done at a cost that was less than what it would cost the brand to have a permanent staff in place. Over time, this role has changed.
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. Every business-to-business CEO and CMO I've met — most of whom came of age prior to the social media era — is trying to understand how to leverage social media to grow their business. They want to understand Twitter.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 3, 2014
Whether it was Rita McGrath explaining the importance of identifying risk in inherently risky ventures, Rosabeth Moss Kanter encouraging leaders to let their small experiments proliferate, or Eric Ries and Steve Blank teaching us the value of systematic experimentation and innovation accounting, the message has been clear: constantly testing new ideas is vital in the search for organic growth. Consensus is a powerful tool.
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.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 23, 2014
Since 2012, I’ve co-hosted The Lean Startup Conference with Eric Ries. Many business conferences are notable not only for the prominent people on stage, but also for those who are missing. For instance, at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland this week, fewer than 18% of the speakers are women. Women’s under-representation at such events gets a lot of attention, but people of color are also relatively rare on conference stages.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 26, 2013
In my eyes, the work Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and others have done to provide a cogent, accessible frame around the academic concepts of emergent strategy is one of the most important contributions to the innovation movement over the past few years. I love Lean.
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.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 13, 2014
As I described in a previous post , GE is working with Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author recognized for pioneering the Lean Startup movement. GE is an icon of management best practices. Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated.
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. The language has been widely adopted, and that includes some folks who haven''t yet had the chance to read Ries'' work or digest the ideas behind it.
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.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 13, 2017
After the original idea was published, in 1995, it was picked up by Steve Blank, and then by Eric Ries, and became the foundation of the lean startup movement. You’re working on a new venture and you know you’ve got to create a plan to execute it. 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. Right?
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