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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? But how much time would it have taken?

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50+ Business Cases on Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Open Innovation EU

The course was based on the following model: The following list is a selection of the business cases they found, mostly based on the Lean Startup, Lean Enterprise, Corporate Entrepreneurship and agile/Scrum – all available freely and online for use at your disposal, so I decided to share them with you. jaguar/lean-production/.

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Value Stream Discovery: What to test & how to measure [Airbnb example]

Moves the Needle

Ash Maurya’s Lean Canvas and Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas come to mind. Similar tools have been around for ages, by the way; used in lean manufacturing processes, Agile, kanban, scrum, etc. Like Lean Startup, the concept of a “value stream” also comes from the lean manufacturing world.

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The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

In 2009, I moved on to Salesforce.com, where Agile methods (including Scrum) were implemented across their entire research and development organization. Process and Methods Special topic: Agile/Lean UX'

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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

hackerearth

Many of its outside-the-box experiments—LEGO theme parks, TV shows, clothing, accessories, electronic toys, learning centers, and Harry Potter- and Star Wars-based toys—failed. That is the lesson learned at Lego — just in time,” says David Robertson, Professor of Practice teaching Innovation and Product Development at Wharton.

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Business Model Innovation 2020? - From Lean Startups to Impact Startups.

The BMI Lab Blog

Lean startup, coined by Eric Ries and previously described in the book “The Four Steps to Epiphany” (2005) by Eric’s mentor Steve Blank, is singing from the same song-sheet. Since then, a growing number of companies have started to train their people in skills to identify unsolved customer problems or unsatisfied customer needs.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

Research has shown that innovation is mostly linked to the Schumpetarian view: innovative companies are more likely to be started by Schumpetarian-type founders (Samuelsson & Davidsson, 2009), are more likely to be started by engineering students (Ilozor et al., Shane, 2003). Entrepreneurial thinking. Corporate entrepreneurship.