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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Ries Business Model Entrepreneur Agility 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

It’s a framework for entrepreneurs, building on “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. They became a tight group as they went down to the factory floor and built products together and looked at market research together. According to their 2013 Year-in-Review, in the first year, Ries trained 80 coaches exclusively dedicated to FastWorks.

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Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

There's no doubt technology entrepreneurship is becoming its own kind of celebrity. Eric Ries has recently become fond of saying, "Entrepreneurship is not cool, it's not sexy and it's totally uncomfortable. As a result of all the attention, we have a phenomenon TechCrunch has dubbed " The New Silicon Valley Douchebag."

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Entrepreneur Ries Hammer Technology 19

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

There's no doubt technology entrepreneurship is becoming its own kind of celebrity. Eric Ries has recently become fond of saying, "Entrepreneurship is not cool, it's not sexy and it's totally uncomfortable. As a result of all the attention, we have a phenomenon TechCrunch has dubbed " The New Silicon Valley Douchebag."

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Entrepreneur Ries Hammer Technology 19

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. That’s what “brand-led” means.

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Brand Ries Entrepreneur Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In 2001 the list of companies with the highest market caps was dominated by blue chips. The market now rewards the long-term vision and continual investment in new growth represented by these younger enterprises. Besides exposing existing markets, a TAP mindset uncovers potential opportunities before there’s a market for them.

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CEO Consensus Management Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Ned Barnholt is the former CEO of Agilent Technologies, the measurement company, and these days he's one of the more respected executives in Silicon Valley. They worked on numerous initiatives in large, growing markets that were adjacent to or somewhat related to HP's existing business. The technology was great.

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Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 13

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 technology held appeal for network engineering departments at both telecom providers and digital service providers.

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KPI Innovation Ries Banking 9

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. GE vice chairman Beth Comstock spoke to the issues of speed and continual customer input in a 2014 interview, when she said, “We work in these very complex, deep industrial technologies.

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Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

So how do you empower your corporate innovators to bring their ideas to market? If they'd been able to pay the same amount for different packaging on the open market, what would the outcome have been? Free access to salespeople, manufacturing capacity and marketing dollars all can inhibit the generation of sustainable business models.

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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock told me they looked to see how they could take this battery technology to new markets. Marketing plays a catalyst role, providing growth funding. Organic growth depends on discovering breakthrough ideas, leveraging technology, and getting closer to customers.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Those benefits fall into three categories: To jumpstart network effects that provide a first-mover advantage: Many of the projects being built using blockchain technology are “protocols” that govern the interactions between users in a decentralized autonomous network. How ICOs Constrain.

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Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

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. So what happened? In fact, what happened is activist investors.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

They recognize that as UX eclipses traditional brand marketing, they need to be more hands-on with their products. The gap is growing between traditional sales-and-marketing-driven behemoths with their "customer-centric" approach and the new breed of organizations like Square and Zipcar, who have a "UX-centric" culture. All of it.".

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Leadership Ries CEO Products 10

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. One of these young entrepreneurs in particular stood out.

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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. You’re working on a new venture and you know you’ve got to create a plan to execute it. Not so fast.

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Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9