“If something’s not working, we owe it to ourselves, and the taxpayers, to try something different.” The Problem How do we know we’re investing our very limited resources in solving the right problems? How do…
Since our co-founder Eric Ries published The Lean Startup in 2011, organizations around the globe have been applying The Lean Startup methodology to an ever-growing number and variety of business challenges. Here at Lean Startup…
Innovation Team Investing: Behind the Growth Board Decisions By Jonathan Bertfield, Lean Startup Senior Faculty Managing a portfolio of innovation teams is key in deploying Lean Startup at scale. Digesting the evidence they present demands a…
What does innovation really mean? It seems most people think innovation means a shiny new object — a product, a service, or an original pricing model that shakes up the markets. But in today’s world,…
The first half of 2020 has shaken a lot of assumptions – not least of which, assuming that having a forward plan will always pay off. Didn’t we all have a strategic plan for 2020?…
What is absolutely essential? How has the ongoing pandemic affected our basic needs—for food, security, connection and autonomy? In most cases, even though the world may be changing rapidly, our basic needs don’t actually change…
Let’s be honest. For many organizations, even daily operations have become a survival-level struggle. Businesses everywhere are being severely tested by the pandemic and its devastation. Whether you’re working to bring in revenue in spite…
Even in times of hardship, uncertainty is another word for possibility. As a nation, we’ve made it through other crises and found reasons for hope. The 2008 financial crisis reset on our financial system. September…
Long before today’s current, unprecedented state, Chris Stephens, Head of Education at Lean Startup Co., asked Eric Ries a simple question: Why does Lean Startup exist? And Eric told him that, in his view, humanity…
As innovators, we are faced with the challenges of managing uncertainty, battling the status quo and trying to exact a vision on the world that feels like very few others can see. The resulting feeling…
Over the past few weeks we’ve seen how much can change in an instant. Global uncertainty can cause massive analysis paralysis and jam up decision-making—even in the face of an urgent need for action. We’ve…