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Three Ways a Peer-Based Network Can Energize Entrepreneurs

Business and Tech

Anyone who has taken on the risk of entrepreneurship and endured its frequent failures knows it can be a lonely path. Whether it’s a specific contact, software, or strategy that you otherwise would not have discovered, the key to growth is leaning into these peer relationships. According to the U.S.

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50+ Business Cases on Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Open Innovation EU

During a course we developed at Avans University this winter, we asked students to gather relevant business cases on innovation and entrepreneurship in order to analyse them and prepare discussions around organization design. Source: www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/when-toyota-met-e-commerce-lean-at-amazon.

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The Right Way to Do Lean Research

Boxes and Arrows

Each panelist had made their mark on how design is done in start-ups: Laura wrote the influential O’Reilly book on UX for Lean Startups, and Todd penned the bestselling Rosenfeld Media Prototyping book. Mike founded an influential Lean UX community in San Francisco. . Below is Laura Klein expounds on these key themes of lean research.

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7 Ways Corporations Are Driving Entrepreneurship Within Their Organisation

Innovation Excellence

It’s a cruel paradox that many big businesses that are trying to transform to be more innovative, agile and responsive to customers are hamstrung by the very culture they’re attempting to fix. Here at the Lean Start-up conference in California. Continue reading →

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Why Corporate Innovation is Harder Now

Steve Blank

” Listen to the entire interview here : Or just parts of the interview: 01:59 What drew me to entrepreneurship. 05:25 Entrepreneurship in the 20th century. 07:13 The Lean Startup Lightbulb moment. 08:18 Agile Development and Lean – Eric Ries. 05:25 Entrepreneurship in the 20th century.

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Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

Steve Blank

—– Lean Innovation Management. In the last five years “ Lean Startup ” methodologies have enabled entrepreneurs to efficiently build a startup by searching for product/market fit rather than blindly trying to execute. The result will be: a new, Lean version of the Three Horizons of Innovation. Here’s how.

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Understanding the ISO Standard for Innovation Management – Concepts & Benefits

IM Insights

Elijah Eilert speaks to Andy Cars , the founder and CEO of Lean Ventures International, about the ISO standards for innovation management. 01:09) Introducing Andy Cars owner of Lean Ventures International AB. (03:52) 54:00) On the need for a Chief Entrepreneurship/Innovation Officer (as championed by Alexander Osterwalder ). (54:25)