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The Lean Startup book, 10 years after: how did if fare across time?

Rapid Innovation in digital time

The Lean Startup was published by Eric Ries 10 years ago in 2011. How did it fare across time? In my opinion, it hasn't aged a bit. It's still utterly accurate, so clear-cut phrased, as illustrated by selected punchlines from the book.

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Workplace Culture: Productive People Make High-performing Teams That Produce Rapid Results

Innovation Excellence

How do you define the culture of your workplace? A positive, engaging workplace culture can attract and retain talented employees, increase productivity, and even improve financial performance. Workplace culture can change rapidly with world events, and play an important role in how employees respond to and operate in times of crisis.

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The Secret Ingredient to Operational Excellence Success

Qmarkets

In his 2011 book, Design for Operational Excellence, Kevin J. Duggan outlines a much more modern approach: Design lean value streams from the time the order is received until delivery to the customer. Make lean value streams flow from one process to the other. Drive lean & agile processes through digital transformation.

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What Marie Kondo taught me about agile project management

mjvinnovation

The most notably is her 2011 bestselling The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing. The KONMARI method has premises that closely resemble lean thinking and agile mindset. Born in 1984, Kondo wrote four books in her career. Results do not define who we are; they follow the journey. .

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The Secret Ingredient to Operational Excellence Success

Qmarkets

In his 2011 book, Design for Operational Excellence, Kevin J. Duggan outlines a much more modern approach: Design lean value streams from the time the order is received until delivery to the customer. Make lean value streams flow from one process to the other. Drive lean & agile processes through digital transformation.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Are lean innovation and the Startup Way a failure in large companies?

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

Open Innovation EU

Corporate entrepreneurship, and intrapreneurship, are direct effects of entrepreneurial thinking applied to organizations, and then more specifically organizational culture. Klein & Bullock, 2006; Lewin, 2011; Von Mises, 1949). Koppl, 2008; Lewin, 2011). Corporate entrepreneurship. Neck et al. 1: The Uncertainty Paradox.