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Lean Startup Co.
2w ago
Ieasha Taitano is an executive leader, practitioner, and facilitator who builds shared service practices in innovation, design thinking, and product management. She has led transformations at companies like Waste Management, Travelers Insurance, Cisco, and as Head of Innovation at TracFone Wireless. She loves helping people break through established behavior and patterns to find their creative brilliance in designing new and novel services, products, and models.
When you joined TracFone, what did you see happening in terms of not just product development, but the culture?
When I joined ..read more
Lean Startup Co.
2w ago
When you’re lean, the momentum and success of your organization rely on a small group of people capable of designing and testing solutions for a wide range of challenges. Even with a cross-functional mindset, there’s an inherent challenge facing collaborative teams: how to prevent groupthink.
Groupthink, a psychological phenomenon, leads a team to minimize conflict, avoid critical evaluation, and ultimately conform to a group’s thought process. Essentially, the team denies the uniqueness of individuals with diverse experiences and expertise, establishing a streamlined way of thinking. This ..read more
Lean Startup Co.
2w ago
Product-market fit is a critical concept in Lean Startup methodology, and understanding how to achieve it is paramount. Coined by Marc Andreessen in a 2007 blog post, product-market fit is defined as being in a good market with a product that can satisfy that market. Despite its importance, detailed guidance on achieving product-market fit is often lacking in many articles.
Product Market Fit Pyramid
The Product-Market Fit Pyramid, a framework introduced in The Lean Product Playbook based on extensive experience provides a structured approach to defining and achieving product-market fit. Thi ..read more
Lean Startup Co.
2w ago
This post originally appeared at Startup Lessons Learned, and was written by Eric Ries.
Photo by The Lean Startup Conference/Jakub Mosur and Erin Lubin
One of the most important and most understood Lean Startup techniques is called the minimum viable product.
I was delighted to be asked to give a brief talk about the MVP at the inaugural meetup of the Lean Startup circle here in San Francisco. Below you’ll find the video of my remarks. But I wanted to say a few words first.
First, a definition: the minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maxim ..read more
Lean Startup Co. Blog
2M ago
Lean Startup in Action:
A Conversation with Our Founder Eric Ries
with Ben Hafele and Eric Ries
Ben Hafele
Managing Director, Lean Startup Co.
Eric Ries
Founder
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In this webinar, Ben Hafele: Managing Director and Eric Ries, Founder will share how to generate innovation wins more quickly with less waste. If this is something you are interested in, then this webinar is for you.
What we discussed:
Updates on the current state of the Lean Startup methodology
How t ..read more
Lean Startup Co. Blog
2M ago
In the uncertain world of innovation, companies waste millions building products that fail. When it comes to innovation, companies tend to adopt one of the following two extreme views:
They believe that the ways things have always been done will continue to work throughout the life of their company.
In an effort to “embrace” the uncertainty of developing a new product or idea, teams abandon all sense of management (which ultimately results in chaos).
Eric Ries, author, and mind behind the Lean Startup methodology, aims to guide corporate teams through a systematic approach to innovation tha ..read more
Lean Startup Co. Blog
2M ago
Lean Startup in Action:
How to Implement Lean Startup in Large Companies
with Jonathan Bertfield and Marilyn Gorman
Jonathan Bertfield
Senior Director, Lean Startup Co.
Marilyn Gorman
Director, Lean Startup Co.
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In this webinar, Jonathan Bertfield: Senior Director and Marilyn Gorman: Director will share how to to generate wins more quickly and avoid wasting your time and resources. If this is something you are interested in, then this webinar is for you.
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Lean Startup Co.
4M ago
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“Pivot fast or die!”
“The art of the Pivot.”
“Pivoting is a sign of weakness!”
There are plenty of commentaries and articles that either glorify or challenge the Pivot as an idea that lies at the heart of how great entrepreneurial teams operate. But what we see over and over again when coaching innovation and product development teams inside large corporations is that regardless of how central it is, many of these teams really struggle to execute a Pivot effectively.
In this post we’ll break down the mechanics and mindset of what Pivoting is really ..read more
Lean Startup Co.
9M ago
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Navigating Through the Squiggles
A primer on how Lean Startup can help your teams innovate with confidence AND build products customers love.
By Jonathan Bertfield & Ben Hafele
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Innovate with Confidence
The journey taken by an individual or a team shepherding a new project from early idea to revenue rarely progresses in a straight line. Even when teams move forward and sense progress, they often run into dead ends and are forced to reverse course. We call this messy, challenging, yet rewarding journey “navigating ..read more
Lean Startup Co.
9M ago
There’s a saying that ‘position gives authority and behavior earns respect’.
In coaching leaders across many countries, I’ve learned that the best leaders are open to learning from anyone and anything around them. They are humble, they don’t rely on seniority or a title to get things done, and they build support and follower-ship through the values they demonstrate. These leaders also understand that leadership and learning are integral to each other.
Like Spiderman, great leaders know that ‘with great power comes great responsibility’. We trust our leaders not only with the care of our ..read more