With that being said, though, I am of the opinion that the academic community has dropped the ball relative to Lean. What do I mean by this? I have previously stated that managers today need to take ...

In terms of the requisite skills, attributes and responsibilities, the roles of startup founder and company CEO are very different. It’s no surprise then that making the transition from one to ...

Image by Joi via Flickr: Eric Ries There’s a lot of buzz in innovation circles about the lean startup movement, which is being hailed as the next really, really big new thing in innovation. Is ...

Startup 101. Lean Startup: Look Before You Leap . If you're thinking about creating a startup, do your homework and learn about lean startup. Don't spend six months coding a product; prove that people ...

The Lean Startup, after all, ... “It’s about setting a goal that can be measured, identifying leap-of-faith assumptions, and working backward to say, ...

According to The Lean Startup, a startup’s purpose is to launch MVPs—“minimum viable products”—into the world to discover whether the founders’ LOFAs—“leap-of-faith assumptions ...

But as Ries demonstrated in The Lean Startup, a more effective approach to building a new business is to identify and test specific assumptions ... Level 2: Leap of Faith Assumptions Dashboards.

Leap-of-faith assumptions: About customers (problems, habits, preferences, needs, willingness to pay), partners, competitors. ... Lean Startup transformation of a large enterprise.