Moves the Needle

MAY 12, 2016

What they need in order to be more competitive may or may not require technical innovation. A culture of entrepreneurship snowballs. At Intuit, MTN Co-Founder Aaron Eden started the snowball by running “LeanStartIN” workshops under the radar to teach lean startup to small handfuls of colleagues. This means everyone.

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Innovation 360

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Founder of Imtiaz ME specializing in the areas of entrepreneurship development and innovation, Dana’s work is focused extensively on the development of the startup ecosystem in MENA and other emerging markets. Entrepreneurship and Ecosystem development. Areas of expertise. Workshop Moderation & Facilitation. Leadership.

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Innovation 360 Group

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Founder of Imtiaz ME specializing in the areas of entrepreneurship development and innovation, Dana’s work is focused extensively on the development of the startup ecosystem in MENA and other emerging markets. Entrepreneurship and Ecosystem development. Areas of expertise. Workshop Moderation & Facilitation. Leadership.

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The BMI Lab Blog

AUGUST 17, 2021

Alongside the series of episodes with entrepreneurs and innovation leaders, we recommend the first-ever ETL Research bonus episode which looks at one of the first empirical studies about lean startup , an approach that BMI Lab follows since day 1. If you want to find out more about our lean startup approach, check out our Launchpad.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Allan is a dynamic professional from the field of Industrial Engineering and Management specializing in Project Management, Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship, Quality Management, Leadership and Change Management. Social Entrepreneurship. Quality Management – Lean, Six Sigma, TQM, ISO. Commercial Officer Asia-Pacific.

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Innovation 360 Group

APRIL 3, 2017

Allan is a dynamic professional from the field of Industrial Engineering and Management specializing in Project Management, Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship, Quality Management, Leadership and Change Management. Social Entrepreneurship. Quality Management – Lean, Six Sigma, TQM, ISO. Background. Areas of expertise.

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mjvinnovation

JANUARY 15, 2021

In the book Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Peter Drucker defines innovation as “the specific instrument of entrepreneurship […] that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth” Scott Berkun, from Carnegie Mellon University, believes that “innovation is a significant positive change.”

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Innovation Walk

MARCH 1, 2019

CEO of Tataj Innovation , international keynote speaker , author ( Innovation and Entrepreneurship. But this is a fine balance between control and trust, between competition and collaboration, between entrepreneurial organizations and bureaucracies. This is how they can accelerate their way or the speed with which they innovate.

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Leanstack

MARCH 29, 2018

Mary adds: “I know this will sound cliche, but… competition is a good thing. Competition helps validate a market and most first movers really have a disadvantage, not an advantage. Most people incorrectly boil the Lean Startup down to 2 things: Start with an MVP and run lots of experiments. blurts out Steve. Mary sighs.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 12, 2020

David Ross teaches innovation, entrepreneurship, and investment at Carnegie Mellon University Africa, and serves as the founding manager of the Industry Innovation Lab and managing director of Stratera Capital. He recently chatted with Nicolas Bry of Orange Africa about how to boost corporate open innovation initiatives in Africa.

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Fehmida Kapadia

JANUARY 3, 2018

We have started integrating the agile and lean methodology (popularized by the IT industry) into our waterfall methodology (popularized by the manufacturing industry). The key tenet of agile and lean development is to quickly and iteratively build?—?test?—?learn. At this stage of the process, I like to use Ash Maurya’s Lean Canvas.

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KindlingApp

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Startup swami Eric Ries’ essential book The Lean Startup defines a startup as “a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty”, which implies an essential element of innovation. Competition between individual entities then slowly shifts towards competition between networks.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

The problem with timing is that every innovation only has a relatively small window of opportunity that happens when the technology and customers are ready, but there isn’t much entrenched competition. It requires companies to adapt, innovate, and find new ways to be competitive. Being too early.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

Advocates of the lean startup method for creating a business advise entrepreneurs, as well as corporate intrapreneurs, to document, test, and refine their assumptions about a new venture’s business model via customer conversations and experiments. First, the good news: In general, the lean startup method works. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Our current silver bullet is Lean. The Lean movement began in manufacturing , then took the startup world by storm, and now the methodology has crept into companies of all kinds and sizes, both in practice and in jargon. Plenty has been said and written praising the benefits of the Lean approach. But what is lost?

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Leanstack

JANUARY 10, 2020

You line up a curriculum on business modeling, lean startup, metrics, and pitching skills. and how they establish themselves as the most desirable alternative and make their competition irrelevant. So you spend time filling that gap with education. Add to that UX, sales, marketing, growth hacking… and whatever else you can cram in.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

” Arkilic had been reading Steve Blank’s blog , as well as his book, The Four Steps to the Epiphany , which would later spawn the lean startup movement. “In our very naive early entrepreneurship days, we thought we were going to be able to sell math,” Tilton remembers. That’s what we needed to change.”

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 13, 2016

My MBA start-up competition @hultbiz just finished. My best teams were awesome. Every team demonstrated plenty of inspiration and perspiration, but the best teams were willing to do a few very uncomfortable things that the average teams weren’t. Continue reading →

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Matthew Griffin

MARCH 23, 2015

If you want to stand a chance of creating a successful business in today’s increasingly competitive world then I’d suggest that you follow each of these seven themes zealously. They use lean, agile development techniques. Their user experience is simple. They have vision. They create the right solution at the right time.

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Rmukesh Gupta

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Everyone wants to grow their business – irrespective of the current size or the level of competition. Lean into Super-Consumers. This also means that growth is not easy. So, any strategy that can help grow our business is a welcome addition to all the material that we already have.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

It's deciding to stop talking about the competitive threat, and instead asking what it will take to leapfrog those competitors. They have the spirit of entrepreneurship (that Paul Graham has described as missing after Yahoo started to grow) — with people inventing and creating. Become learning machines.

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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. I have been thinking lately about how hard it is to scale start-ups. How did Akamai do it? Founding Akamai.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

A few years ago, I was teaching a two-day program about ethics in India for entrepreneurs and business faculty who taught entrepreneurship. The program in Delhi started as many of these programs do: A group of cordial but skeptical participants sat with arms crossed and gentle smirks, leaning back in their chairs.

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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. Customer insights, competitive dynamics, and broader contextual factors like socioeconomic trends should shape the brand strategy, but not drive it.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

As expected, the incumbent, United Launch Alliance (a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin), won the lion’s share of the contract; notably, SpaceX was awarded a portion of the contract to promote price competition. ULA benefits from access to Blue Origin’s innovative designs and lean operations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

” Discovery-driven planning has since become a staple in business schools’ entrepreneurship curricula and a go-to technique for those who manage innovation. They’ve also written about it in their coauthored book, Discovery-Driven Growth , and in McGrath’s latest book, The End of Competitive Advantage.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Studies show that efforts to stimulate intrapreneurship — entrepreneurship within an established company — more often than not fall flat. Facilitated internal hackathons help companies get past slow decision-making and embrace competition. Entrepreneurship Innovation' And they don’t leave until it is done.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

Their model wasn’t a fit with clinicians’ busy schedules — particularly given that the vast majority of the clinician innovators applying for one of our accelerator grants have no intention of ever leaving their day job to pursue full-time entrepreneurship. From the start of a project, we cultivate entrepreneurial thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

This industry is extremely competitive. We used a program called "Lean Building" and brought in all of our trade partners for a solid week to learn together how to cut out the waste and deliver a better product at a lower cost. Next on the list was investing in design. If I come in second, I lose.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

They are therefore designed for growth, especially given their lean organizational structures. Second, these companies rent all aspects of operational scale from partners and eliminate any capital expenditures or operational inertia from their execution plans.

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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.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 18, 2022

million women-owned businesses in the United States, and women’s entrepreneurship is growing rapidly. Stay lean and mean, do everything you can yourself, and outsource things that you need, as opposed to hiring staff to do things. Stephanie Mann EVP – Corporate Development and Strategy, Live Oak Bank. There are now 12.3

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 28, 2025

Completing a recognized certification can also bolster your resume and make you more competitive in the job market. Workshops often focus on specific skills or methodologies, such as risk management, lean thinking, or agile project management. Understanding your end goals can help you chart a practical and focused path forward.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

DECEMBER 1, 2024

It can enable how ideas flow from innovation through entrepreneurship and into established business practices, and how larger businesses can engage with and benefit from entrepreneurial energy. Start-up Ecosystems can be geographically concentrated (like Silicon Valley) or distributed across a region or country.

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Leanstack

JUNE 7, 2018

Over the last nine years, I’ve published two best-selling books: Running Lean and Scaling Lean. That collaboration, however, was short-lived, as I had already committed to writing my second book, Scaling Lean , which sucked up most of my time. But the seeds had been planted. in 2 week sprints.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

And we are often happy to review these start-up plans — which include the typical elements such as a product description, competitive analysis, estimate of market size, and projected financials. But if we're going to truly see change through entrepreneurship, we have to focus on the person first and the business plan second.

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