Big company processes and mindset are not set up for innovation. Innovation roles and responsibilities are unclear and it’s hard to know where to start.
In a world changing at unprecedented rates, organizations must learn to tap into their teams’ entrepreneurial potential if they want to survive.
Over a 10-week period, we train and coach your teams to apply The Lean Startup to one or more of your innovation projects. Our faculty have extensive corporate experience. They will guide your teams to avoid pitfalls and share shortcuts that lead to successful outcomes.
Accelerate progress and make pivot-persevere-kill decisions based on market evidence.
For anyone starting the innovation journey within the enterprise, I would recommend working with Lean Startup Co. because they have actual practitioners — folks who have done it before, who have tested many different methods of Lean Startup and been able to implement it.
Lean Startup Co. focuses on the principles and behaviors unlike other folks that might get too caught up on using specific tools, I have found that Lean Startup Co. coaches are versed in all those different tools, but they stick to the principles of Lean Startup.
Our team is absolutely thrilled about the workshops you ran for us during our leadership summit! The buzz about the Lean Startup approach has been nonstop, and leaders across the organization have been discussing ways to apply the concepts as soon as possible.
We will not succeed in our new strategy without sufficiently adopting Lean Startup in the coming months/years. Thanks so much for starting us down the path with an exceptional workshop tailored specifically for our team. The extra effort you put forth to customize the sessions for us made a tremendous difference.
Thanks again for leading us through such a top-notch event.
I work as an Innovation Enablement Manager at IKEA business solutions, which is part of the retail organization managing 90% of all the IKEA stores in the world.
As the world around us is moving faster, we felt that we are not competitive enough in many areas. I have seen a tendency in large organizations to feel like they have to get it perfect. So then you put a lot of planning into project execution, potentially wasting valuable time and resources before you know if it will be successful. Many people are solution oriented or problem orientated. You need to start with “why” are you doing it.
We needed guidance to help us challenge our thinking. Many people in the organization came to us, wanting to move faster and be more innovative, but didn’t know how to get there.
We reached out to the Lean Startup Company in May of 2016, to introduce Lean Startup concepts at our yearly meeting with all of the managers in IKEA Business Solutions. That sparked something in the organization. So we picked out 20 people to do a follow-on workshop in October, 2016. We see this as a pilot to see how Lean Startup methodology would work within IKEA. We see it as a Lean Startup experiment to help us get traction in a different way of thinking.
The perception among the workshop participants is they can immediately start going faster, by getting to the “why” much early in the innovation process. Rather than wasting time by immediately focusing on the execution of a project, including forms, requirements, and internal investments, they are excited about starting with the “why”. There is already great traction and a willingness to work differently.
“We hired Lean Startup Co. to facilitate several trainings on behalf of our enterprise company beginning in 2014. The first engagement was a one-day introductory workshop for our executives and cross functional teams. We received so much positive feedback from this initial training that we brought Lean Startup Co. back to for a two-day workshop in 2015 and then engaged in three months of ongoing coaching to support our teams as they moved forward.
I highly recommend Lean Startup training and coaching to any organization who wants to bring products and services to market faster. What’s more is now our company shares a Lean Startup mindset and understanding of design-thinking principles, and this education has set a solid foundation to drive towards product excellence. This partnership has exceeded my goals and expectations. For example, we started a new team using the Lean Startup framework. In a few short months, this first team has been able to improve their business model validation testing from weeks to a couple days. It’s amazing to witness how far all our teams have come, how the language in the building has changed and how now we’re running experiments to find a viable business for our company. We’ve taken great strides from where we were a year ago, and I have no doubt this momentum will continue.
Thank you Lean Startup Co. for getting us here — we couldn’t have done it without you!”
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