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Oh, my dear. I loved the "Lean Startup," but with this book, Eric Ries shows that he is out of his waters.The basic and only "major" idea of this book is to make Entrepreneurship a line function of every company, e.g., such as HR, Finance, IT, Sales and Purchasing are. In contrast to the other departments, the "Entrepreneurship" unit has some matrix functions in the other line functions, such as training and coaching entrepreneurs and maintaining start-ups like funding and governance structures
Sometimes an author writes such an excellent book that you are willing to buy his/her next book, sight unseen. Eric Ries' outstanding The Lean Startup is still something I reference and ask new business partners and employees to read because it's such a fine and important book. This is not.Eric took the nimble world of startups and tried to pretend that discussing GE and the US government would be of interest to his Lean Startup audience. A total yawner that I had to struggle through and then fi...
Very nice followup to the Lean Startup - but not as revolutionary for me, hence only 4 stars. As for the content of the book itself, the fact, that author pulled off Lean Startup approach in one of the iconic large organisations, adds a lot of credibility to it (and it's very interesting to read). I did not understood validated learning part though - or I'm just dissappointed that it boils down "just" to the set of metrics. I will definitely go back to that book many times, while trying to imple...
The “Lean Startup” is one of the best business books I’ve read, and this book is even bolder and more ambitious. It’s a comprehensive, detailed vision for how companies can manage “continuous transformation.” I found it compelling, useful, and inspiring. It’s not a breezy read. (There is a chapter on accounting, after all.) But the tone is so positive and encouraging that I can’t help but be a huge Eric Ries fan, and look forward to following up on more of his work.
Read the full review at my site Digital AmritAt a certain point, when your transformation has grown powerful enough to affect an entire company, when it has totally won out over whatever culture it was designed to replace, it is also itself too big for radical changes.What is the book about?The Startup Way is written by Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup.This purpose of The Startup Way is to start with the Lean Startup principles and apply them in an enterprise context to make organisations m...
The author provides a kind of simple yet powerful framework to start a new product. There are many real life samples from a wide variety of industries and sizes. Also, he is honest saying that this is not a "magical" formula, and as any other type of framework, it needs continuous improvements. Besides the methods and tools he propose, the book encourage and inspire you to innovate and think in a "entrepreneurial" way.
As its title and pitch stands, the Startup Way is basically Lean Startup applied to big corporations.Though the book may resonate with employees of large companies, I found several limitations:- Eric Ries obviously has some experience of the corporate world, but the whole book mostly revolves around his coaching work at GE.- If you're not a top executive, the book won't be of much help. Ries advocates that the transformation has to start from the top and be strongly supported by CxO level. Thoug...
Having been an engineering manager cum entrepreneur myself for 12+ years, the philosophy of lean and experiment-based innovation harmonises very well with my own experiences and ways of scaling engineering teams. Its a book that is resoundingly clear especially for those of us who have been through the trenches and can empathise with the problems and solutions that are presented, but i think it could also be misconstrued as being too self-sufficient, avoiding the landmines that do emerge, giving...
The title should sound "Lean Startup based on examples from more mature organizations". If you already read Lean Startup by Eric Ries you can skip the first part of The Startup Way.In this book are plenty of interesting tips or case studies, but most of them are too general. "Company X had a problem, they implemented the lean methodology, made some tests and everyone was happy". In the middle of case studies usually, I felt I had missed some crucial details about the magic, I listened again the
Already a fan of Eric Ries from his earlier work, I eagerly picked up this book. In this book he discusses how companies, irrespective of their size, and he uses his work with General Electic as a potent example, can use the startup way when thinking about product development, flexibility in thinking and the willingness to seek alternative solutions to the tested and tried formula that has worked for many years or is ingrained in the thinking of the company. It is a potent reminder of why we sho...
I learned a lot Ries' first book the Lean Startup and thought it brought some great practices together. The Startup Way aims to apply those Lean Startup ideas to major corporations using GE as a case study. I found chapters 3-5 to be the strongest. The gap Ries leaves is for startups who have lost their way because they were initially successful and have grown past a two pizza team size. The entrepreneurial and risk taking takes a back seat to scaling and normalizing. For a startup that's grown
i enjoyed this book more than i did his first book. I feel like it expanded on the concepts better than just focusing on how to get to prototype alone. He did provide numerous examples of how his questions led to prototypes being explored that otherwise weren't though to be on the table. He had a clear example of this with GE in the book with a new model engine. As i read the book it gave me different lenses for which to view things from and got me thinking about various things i could be doing
In this book, Eric Ries shared how is possible to create and scale up the lean startup thinking inside big companies. Based on examples like Intuit, General Electric, and the American Government, the author explains how those organizations use the startup way when thinking about product development, flexibility in thinking and the willingness to seek alternative solutions to be tested. In my opinion, the book was written to convince CxO level the importance of rebuild organizations for the 21-ce...
More details on my blog: https://www.jackvinson.com/blog/2018/...A colleague handed me a copy of The Startup Way by Eric Ries because it is being referenced more and more in the work she is doing - and the predecessor (Lean Startup) has been on my to-read list for some time. Even without reading the predecessor, Ries summarizes the main Lean Startup concepts - and many of the ideas are readily heard in popular media.In essence, this book is about taking the Lean Startup concepts and applying the...
You might say you can achieve continuous innovation but sustaining it actually means you are signing into continuous transformation which unrealistic in most enterprise organizations. "Corporate transformation is corporate entrepreneurship." Pivoting is among the central themes in this book also (meaning a change in direction without a change in vision). I liked the definition and description of Executive level Champions whose key role is removing obstacles standing in way of the innovating team...
Just another classic from Ries.
I would give this book 5 stars if I were a corporate innovator or on any kind of corporate innovation team. It is the most definitive solution for corporate innovation I’ve read. I only gave it four stars because I work with early-stage start ups and while Eric‘s suggestions are very relevant for start ups once they scale and have 100 employees are more, roughly, his earlier book lean start up is a better fit for the founders I work with.I also loved his policy ideas listed in the epilogue and h...
Good book for implementing new technologies, Startup visions and planing into the corporate and big companies (multinational aswell). some replacement of famous lean management concept was discussed in the book, highly recommended also for every new startup willing to achieve a minimum viable product.
The beginning of the book was good-ish, mainly a rehash of The Lean Startup and utilizing it in more established companies and in teams in these types of companies. The second half got to be quite a bore and wasn't at all as well written or thought out. Way over the top business restructuring ideas for setting up "startup boards" within companies to manage teams within them and some weird half thought out ideas about having teams within companies "IPO" into their own divisions or get acquired th...
The sequel to The Lean Startup is a pretty terrible book, that was a belaboured read. In this edition, Eric Ries argues for big companies and government organisations to be more entrepreneurial by changing their models of management to encourage innovation. Key Takeaways Part One: The Modern Company One of the reasons it’s hard to build new things at larger companies is because people don’t have the mental model of “My job is to actually learn new things.” Protecting and growing an existing p...