Proctor & Gamble CTO Kathy Fish shares P&G’s Lean Startup-inspired innovation strategy. When Kathy took over as CTO at Proctor and Gamble in 2014 (which, she points out means head of R&D, not IT), she…
In a recent fireside chat, Eric Ries sat down with Viv Goldstein and Janice Semper to discuss FastWorks, the innovation platform they co-founded at GE. What followed was a compelling and insightful conversation about their…
As part of our series examining the ways Lean Startup is practiced across different industries, we recently hosted a conversation between Lean Startup Co. Faculty Lead Marilyn Gorman and the Founder and CEO of Guerrilla…
You’ve read Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup and have become a true believer, i.e. the path to transforming your company and developing an effective culture of innovation involves empowering small teams to create new products…
Learn from Ignacio Julia Vilar, Chief Innovation Officer at ING Banking, during a fireside chat titled, “Beating Corporate Inertia to Win Big in Innovation.” Here are some key takeaways from the discussion. Interviewer Stephen Liquori…
Lean Startup Co. Faculty member Hisham Ibrahim and Leanpub Founder & CEO Peter Armstrong discuss the parallels between books and startups, and how going Lean can help authors overcome the psychological barriers to writing in…
The very qualities you can count on in large enterprise, such as stability and predictability, can have the unintended effect of holding back innovation, says Geeta Wilson, Vice President of Consumer Experience and Enterprise Transformation…
Janet Brunckhorst, a principal project manager at Carbon Five, and Courtney Hemphill, a partner and software developer also at Carbon Five discussed how to use a Lean approach to improve team performance. Both Courtney and…
At Lean Startup Week, in November, 2017, Dr. Tendayi Viki spoke about how intrapreneurs can increase their chances of succeeding by aligning their work to the corporate strategy. Many big companies bring in Lean Startup…
At Lean Startup Conference this past November, Kara DeFrias moderated a panel with Marina Martin, Vivian Graubard, Eduardo Ortiz, and Tiffani Ashley Bell on what the private sector can learn from government. Even though most…
When you want to drive change, getting buy-in from senior leaders is a must. But figuring out where to start can be tricky when they don’t yet “get it,” and when their focus is on…