Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

You have a great business idea but you are not sure how to develop it. model, startups will have more success if they adopt lean and agile business development principles, where failing fast is the premium strategy and the lean business model reigns supreme. And you start by developing the simplest working version of your idea.

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Rajesh Setty

JULY 16, 2013

Although Steve Blank and Eric Reis have made customer development and lean startup methodology household names in the startup ecosystem, there is still a lot of reluctance from entrepreneurs to actively start talking to target customers early in the Lifecycle of a company. All the best!

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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. The Lean Startup has crystallized many of the ideas fundamental to successful innovation and provided companies with additional ways to understand and make room for rapid iteration, agile development, and in-market testing of new ideas.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

It’s a framework for entrepreneurs, building on “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. GE is an ideal laboratory for applying Lean practices because of its scale,” Ries says.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

For example, I'm sure that most innovation practitioners wouldn't put baseball researcher Bill James on their list, but his mission to find patterns, develop theories, and overturn orthodoxy has greatly influenced my own thinking. Lindegaard has spent the last few years developing practical guidance about "open innovation."

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2011

She wanted me to be a part of a professional development event she was organizing in her city, featuring several speakers and consultants. 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.

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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.” The startup turned its ostensible shortcoming into a usable insight in its own technical and sales development.

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KPI Innovation Ries Banking 9

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

MAY 24, 2012

Software development is a frenzied decathlon of activity, constantly pressed on all sides by resource constraints, budgets and deadlines. Waterfall development lays the wrong foundation. In a waterfall development cycle, this phenomenon is all too common. Most software development teams today are feature-focused.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Looking to develop and launch our business, we set our sights on one particular network — StockTwits. We developed a strategy to accomplish three goals across this social network: customer development, brand awareness, and traditional marketing and customer acquisition.

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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. Raw potential can develop into world-class talent, but the portraits of most successful startups feature some gray-haired people who have "been there and done that.".

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Large enterprises have been responding to these developments for some time, mainly by applying the methods of startups such as lean experimentation, design thinking, and agile development. A TAP worldview allows you to discover future markets instead of playing only in developed ones. Develop a Portfolio Strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. However, in the process of unleashing this potential, leaders must make sure their innovators develop sustainability.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

One minute, you've never heard of Eric Ries , and the next he's on the cover of Inc. Reading the case study, I realized Ray's experience provides a perfect template for the elusive process — which any professional can learn from — of how to develop a world-class reputation and become dominant in your field.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Other start-ups develop a core technology that has myriad possible uses and they’re not quite sure which will be most appealing, so they plan to just put it out on the market and let customers decide. It may be tempting to skip brand development in the rush to get a new product to market. what we believe in – our defining values.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

When my publication, Innovation Leader, surveyed 170 executives who work in R&D, strategy, and new product development roles at large public companies, we found that 82% said they’ve already deployed some elements of the lean startup approach. A faster cycle time for developing ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

That includes learning from the outside and striving to adopt certain start-up practices, with a focus on three key management processes: (1) resource allocation that nurtures future businesses, (2) faster-cycle product development, and (3) partnering with start-ups. Product development: g etting closer to customers and moving faster.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

The result: a highly-reactive product development culture in which extra features are continuously bolted on, making the company vulnerable to more pro-active competitors who have a laser-like focus on UX, which can be a potent disruptor in many industries. Design Leadership development Product development'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries' book The Lean Start-Up , has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. Without a repeatable product development process, they are doomed to be one-hit wonders. Akamai: The Present.

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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. That''s not right.

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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 had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. One of these young entrepreneurs in particular stood out.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

They then researched and analyzed the markets, segmented them, and developed products. If the idea got far enough, they developed marketing campaigns, sales strategies, and launched it. To borrow a phrase from Silicon Valley thought leader and author Eric Ries , they "achieved a failure." Their ideas made sense.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

These ICOs are nearly always held when a project is at an immature stage of development akin to a seed stage startup — when it is testing hypotheses around its consumer value proposition and forming a founding team. This focused attention from developers has the added benefit of crowdsourcing feedback on the beta version of the project.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

To become a complete man or woman, each must develop both sides of the psyche. Then, I'd suggest having those who you lead take the test as well, delving into the book for tips on developing their strengths. Our ability to wield power and control situations is our masculine side, while the capacity for relatedness and love is feminine.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Since 2012, I’ve co-hosted The Lean Startup Conference with Eric Ries. Developing relationships with candidates is a long game, but it’s important, particularly because people who haven’t envisioned themselves at your event may realize they’re a fit only if you brainstorm talk ideas together. Have a farm system.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

Here are five new attributes that I think marketing agencies will need to develop to survive: 1. Eric Ries brought the concept of the Lean Startup into our zeitgeist. It is clear that agencies are still holding on to their sacred cows, but it is crystal clear that the dogma of the industry is being rewritten. Models of leanness.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Organizational Development Book. No one style is better than another, and each car­ries its own set of benefits to a collaborative discus­sion. You may have a tendency toward perception when visiting your child’s classroom but employ judgment when at jury duty. Excerpted from. Harvard Business Review. Add to Cart.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

As Eric Ries and Steve Blank are so quick to point out, innovation requires iteration. They can develop a better understanding of their value proposition and tailor the business models of innovative offerings before wide-scale launches.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. It’s a technique that any manager can use when developing and launching a new venture.

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RapidStart Leadership

MAY 9, 2017

Within seven years, petroleum had become the second most valuable export in the United States, helping fuel industrial expansion and development at home and abroad. Eric Ries Click To Tweet. Before long, oil wells were popping up all over the place. We have to be smart enough to recognize that success can take on different forms.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

What makes it useful, though, is the understanding that has developed over time as these criteria have been used to determine which ideas are truly innovative and which aren’t. differ­ent risk cate­go­ries (incremental improvements versus speculative ventures); and differ­ent time horizons.

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