Leanstack

JUNE 9, 2015

When Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook in 2004, he wasn’t the first to build a social networking platform. If you use a high-level concept in your Lean Canvas, that is usually one or more analogs at work, e.g., an Airbnb for parking spaces. Yet, he still managed to build the largest social networking platform on the planet.

Strategy 52

Strategy Strategy LEAN Analysis 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

In a two-part event, employees in WorldJam 2004 first brainstormed solutions to increase growth and innovation, resulting in 191 pragmatic ideas. Its tool and engineering cycle time dropped 50% from 2004 to 2009, costs went down and it produces higher-quality products. A year later, IBM used a jam to bring its new values to life.

Collaboration 16

Collaboration LEAN Tools Brainstorming 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Thus, today we have a number of process "religions": Statistical Process Control was followed by Total Quality Management, Business Reengineering, Six Sigma, Lean, and Business Process Management (BPM, which emphasizes process management software). He is currently conducting research with the Lean Enterprise Institute.

Underperforming Technical Team 15

Underperforming Technical Team LEAN Software Review Technical Review 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Despite all of the hype around alternatives — the gig economy, the sharing economy, holacracy, lean – bureaucracy has been growing, not shrinking. It would seem that managerial enthusiasm for all things “lean” has its limits. Unfortunately, it hasn’t turned out that way.

LEAN 13

LEAN Trends Collaboration Management 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

I first met Dediu when we did an engagement with Nokia back in 2004. His 2011 book, The Lean Startup , is a must read. There are seven "next-generation" innovation writers and thought leaders that are worth watching (in alphabetical order): 1. Horace Dediu. He is one of the most thoughtful students of disruptive innovation you'll meet.

Innovation 17

Innovation Open Innovation LEAN Tips 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Then one evening, at a client dinner, a strategy executive sitting next to me leaned over and said, "Your side-door strategy has been nothing short of brilliant." And in 2004 Paolo Pellegrini, a VP at the investment bank Lazard Freres, was fired — then took on a low-level position at a hedge fund after a lucky phone call.

Strategy 21

Strategy Strategy Entrepreneurship Culture 21

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The Nike Foundation also leans on its expertise in innovation and scale to find solutions to poverty, while keeping its operations separate from the business. To do this they apply the same discipline to their charitable work that they do to their core business--insisting on strategic focus, investing at scale and measuring results.

LEAN 15

LEAN Survey Analysis Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For example, the now ubiquitous and much beloved Fiat 500 was first unveiled by Sergio Marchionne, no stranger to showmanship, at the Geneva Motorshow in 2004 following the buzz generated by the 2001 re-launch of the Mini-Cooper by BMW.

Leadership 14

Leadership Design Product Development LEAN 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Fourth, a conventional company might try to reduce costs across the board by going lean everywhere. That’s how Lego went from losing a million dollars a day in 2004 to being the world’s largest toy company in 2015. But the companies we studied cut costs to grow stronger.

Strategy 15

Strategy Strategy Study Culture 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Early reviews leaned negative: Forbes said "Lance Armstrong admitted a lot of wrongdoing during his 90-minute interview with Oprah Winfrey tonight, but he did almost nothing to win back the sympathy of the world."

LEAN 14

LEAN Report Study Management 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

And finally it includes various approaches to running established companies as if they were start-ups, such as Steven Blank’s “ Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything ” from last year. ” So too would transformation strategies based on reconsidering your company or your industry’s value chain. .”

Strategy 15

Strategy Strategy Competition Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Agile development laid the intellectual groundwork for the Lean movement in entrepreneurship, which further pushed business leaders to organize their business model and product development work around a series of experiments, testing critical hypothesis along the way.

Agile 8

Agile Change Software Developers Software Development 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

After five years, in 2004, Tickle was profitable with more than $20 million in revenue; it received an acquisition offer for $100 million, as well as IPO entreaties. Lean Product Development and Customer Development processes) decreases the chance of a startup’s failure.

Entrepreneurship 10

Entrepreneurship Company Resources LEAN 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

In 2004, Bharti Airtel , the Indian telecomm company, had outsourced its vast network and IT operations—a move that Ranjay Gulati saw as indicating “ more progressive and forward-looking ” thinking than was evident in many Western corporations. An unsettling prospect, to say the least.

Technical Review 9

Technical Review Marketing Technology LEAN 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Maignan Wilkins also suggests you "lean more towards yes than no" whenever your boss asks you to help with something new. In 2004, he started a nonprofit in Baltimore. "It "You have to execute on your boss''s priorities too," says Watkins. Show her that you''re willing to pick up the baton on important projects."

Leadership 14

Leadership Case Study CTO Project 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

One of the most significant came in early 2004 when we decided to relocate from San Francisco to Las Vegas. When we arrived in Vegas, we had no one to lean on except one another. In the years since Zappos was founded, we’ve had to make some big decisions. However, our decision to relocate paid off in several ways.

Culture 10

Culture Technical Review Software Review Software Developers 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

For the past five years, we’ve committed to the philosophy and tools of the lean methodology, a structured approach to creating more value with fewer resources. Using lean, we have decreased hospital length of stay and readmissions across our network, increased unit capacity without expansion, and reduced spending for capital projects.

LEAN 8

LEAN Underperforming Technical Team System Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

As we have seen with the recent speed bumps at highfliers like Groupon and Zynga, taking "lean startups" from foundation to creating sustainable, scalable, profitable business models is a very rare and special task. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder. Scaling is hard.

Software Review 11

Software Review Technical Review Culture LEAN 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In addition, given their quest for organization leanness, digital startups seek investors who have the expertise to help outsource their noncore business functions, such as production, distribution, marketing, and payroll processing.

Company 8

Company Policies Marketing LEAN 8

hackerearth

MAY 12, 2017

In 2004, CEO Knudstrop embarked on a back-to-the-basics journey, and went from a loss of $292 million that year to a profit of $117 million in 2005. Lego has managed to wring sustainability by adopting the Lean startup approach. Disruption just wasn’t working for the Billund-based company. Bionicle” was the only saving grace.

Innovation 40

Innovation Disruption Video Underperforming Technical Team 40

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

from 2004 to 2007. He is currently conducting research with the Lean Enterprise Institute. Air Products, for example, tripled corporate productivity (hard profit-and-loss benefits) from 2003 to 2006, and boosted operating return on net assets from 9.5%

Competition 15

Competition LEAN System Management 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2012

The linguist, George Lakoff ( Don't Think of an Elephant ," White River Junction, VT, Chelsea Green, 2004), who has incredible insights on brands and brand building, noted that winning the framing war with respect to a brand, object, or issue will dictate perceptions, attitudes and behavior — no matter what the logic and evidence may say.

Learning 14

Learning LEAN Design Report 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. Viewers who identify with the right are more likely to watch Fox, while left-leaning people are more likely to watch MSNBC. And it isn’t specific to right-leaning voters. Apple learned this the hard way. For 20 years, starting in 1984, the Macintosh was superior to any PC.

Competition 15

Competition Report Marketing Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

Almost every sophisticated manufacturer uses some kind of lean production system that pulls raw materials in from a warehouse. In some ways it was a repeat of what happened with the Multi Fibre Arrangement (MFA), which governed world trade in textiles from 1974 until its expiration in 2004. This made the U.S. Factor costs.

Competition 14

Competition Policies System Marketing 14