The BMI Lab Blog

AUGUST 17, 2021

Researchers Michael Leatherbee and Riitta Katila recently published a paper in the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal that shows how and why lean startup’s emphasis on “customer discovery” (directly testing business hypotheses with potential customers during product development) does help teams converge on business ideas.

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Idea Champions

JUNE 26, 2019

The best of these will guide AT&T's development for years to come." - Robert Rubin, CCS Product Development, AT&T. "As As a result of Idea Champions' efforts we have implemented more than 250 value-added Big Idea projects." -- Joe Belinsky, Professional Development Manager, Goodyear Rubber and Tire.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Elon Musk, Alfred Sloan, and entrepreneurship in the automobile industry. Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. Modern Corporation Marketing. auto market. car market. There’s the Alfred P.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Instead of being a crisis manager and reacting to change, anticipate changes so you can drive growth from the inside out. Spend one hour a week focusing on predictable opportunities to strategize and become more of an opportunity management organization. Other companies copy the product, and then market saturation occurs.

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Leanstack

MARCH 29, 2018

Even though, his savings ran out 6 months ago, he has hit a comfortable groove using freelance consulting to keep his product development going. By then, they would have cornered the entire market!” Competition helps validate a market and most first movers really have a disadvantage, not an advantage. blurts out Steve.

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Matthew Griffin

JUNE 1, 2015

Entrepreneurs have faster and easier access to funding, expert resources, advanced manufacturing and prototyping techniques and rapid routes to market and when you connect billions of people together the next great idea and the means to resource, develop and sell it are merely a click away. Start your turn early. Conclusion.

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Matthew Griffin

MAY 26, 2015

Design companies focus on creating beautifully designed, frictionless products and are commonly less interested in administering the cost intensive, low margin manufacturing and assembly operations that inevitably rely on facilities that have to be built, managed and supplied in order to create the final product.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Definitely solid ROI!" - Mary Ann Heenehan, Corporate Groups Development Manager, Chubb Insurance "Idea Champions helped us generate powerful new ideas and engage with such energy that six months later their impact still hasn't worn off." - Candida G.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. In our last post, we addressed the six key questions that senior management should address to determine if an Innovation Outpost makes sense for a company. Startups, entrepreneurs, and management teams.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. In our last post, we addressed the six key questions that senior management should address to determine if an Innovation Outpost makes sense for a company. Startups, entrepreneurs, and management teams.

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Innovation 360 Group

AUGUST 25, 2019

And yet, when it comes to innovation, SMEs often do not have the resources and tools to manage a process that consistently delivers results. This mostly rural area, home to IKEA and other furniture manufacturers, is the backbone of the economy and a hotbed of entrepreneurship.

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. In our last post, we addressed the six key questions that senior management should address to determine if an Innovation Outpost makes sense for a company. Startups, entrepreneurs, and management teams.

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Underperforming Technical Team How To Innovation Disruption 40

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Evangelos and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. In our last post, we addressed the six key questions that senior management should address to determine if an Innovation Outpost makes sense for a company. Startups, entrepreneurs, and management teams.

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Underperforming Technical Team How To Innovation Disruption 35

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Evangelos and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. Most CEOs assign the responsibility to establish and manage their innovation outposts (and the outpost’s relationships to startups) to their R&D organizations.

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How To Disruption Innovation Entrepreneurship 38

Matthew Griffin

JUNE 9, 2015

Joys Law is a management principle first proposed by Bill Joy of Sun Microsystems in 1994 that postulates that most of the world’s smartest people don’t work for you, they work for someone else. The genie is out of the bottle and the pace of disruption is accelerating exponentially. Conclusion.

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Idea to Value

JUNE 3, 2017

Relationships were so frayed that within a year or so every single person on the management team was gone. Our culture of entrepreneurship is how we create so much progress. But she insisted, so I taught a middle school program on entrepreneurship at the local Boys and Girls Club. That was my hardest time leading Facebook.

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Rmukesh Gupta

MARCH 2, 2018

In organisations, we compensate sales guys on sales made, product managers on product development, marketing folks on leads generated, manufacturing folks on operational efficiency. In conclusion: It is easier to manage for local optimisation. We want maximum efficiency in almost everything that we do.

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Rmukesh Gupta

MARCH 2, 2018

In organisations, we compensate sales guys on sales made, product managers on product development, marketing folks on leads generated, manufacturing folks on operational efficiency. In conclusion: It is easier to manage for local optimisation. We want maximum efficiency in almost everything that we do.

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Technical Review System Design Product Development 40

Matthew Griffin

MAY 17, 2015

Over the past two weeks I’ve talked to a number of senior C level executives from some of the UK’s largest retail banks to understand more about their views of the world and their perception of the market and while outwardly little looks like its changing at the Big Five banks their executives are not sitting comfortably.

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Matthew Griffin

MAY 26, 2015

Well the good news is that if Santander is your perfect partner then simply E-Mail Mariano Belinky, the Managing Director of Santander InnoVentures and he and his team will see if you pique their interest, ask you twenty questions and maybe give you an audience.

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Rmukesh Gupta

JANUARY 18, 2016

Mentoring/Coaching over a cup of coffee : I shall host the coffee corner sessions every week to mentor/coach young entrepreneurs who want to pick my brain on the topics of new product development, business model, marketing and customer acquisition. So what’s in it for me?

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. Most CEOs assign the responsibility to establish and manage their innovation outposts (and the outpost’s relationships to startups) to their R&D organizations. What would be the charter for our Innovation Outpost?

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Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. Most CEOs assign the responsibility to establish and manage their innovation outposts (and the outpost’s relationships to startups) to their R&D organizations. What would be the charter for our Innovation Outpost?

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How To Disruption Innovation Entrepreneurship 67

Corporate Innovation

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Steve has spent 21 years as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur in eight startups and the last 13 years as an educator – currently teaching entrepreneurship at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and NYU. Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship.

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Corporate Innovation

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Steve has spent 21 years as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur in eight startups and the last 13 years as an educator – currently teaching entrepreneurship at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and NYU. Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship.

Technical Review 49

Technical Review Disruption Innovation Technology 49

Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. Most CEOs assign the responsibility to establish and manage their innovation outposts (and the outpost’s relationships to startups) to their R&D organizations. What would be the charter for our Innovation Outpost?

How To 40

How To Disruption Innovation Entrepreneurship 40

Corporate Innovation

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Steve has spent 21 years as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur in eight startups and the last 13 years as an educator – currently teaching entrepreneurship at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and NYU. Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Disruption Innovation Technology 40

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Evangelos and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. and the emergence of new industries, markets and customers. Ownership and management were one and the same – the owners managed, and there were no salaried middle managers or administrators.

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