The Lean Enterprise
The Lean Enterprise
How Corporations Can Innovate Like Startups
About the Book
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The passing of entrepreneurship as an object of romance will signal the end of an era of dramatic, exciting change in business and society alike. Not everyone will welcome the new age, and even we have mixed feelings when we envision it! Just as online dating is baffling, even offensive in the eyes of our parents’ generation, the rise of enterprise-driven innovation will upset those who value rugged individualism over systematic efficiency.
In this book, we lay out how up-and-coming innovation empires will form vast expanses of creative exploration and business acumen on a scale never seen before. Given immense resources, savvy management, and ever more refined techniques for reaching product/market fit, innovation colonies will probe real problems and develop novel solutions at an unparalleled rate. Their organizational structure will reflect the realities of the networked market, bringing small teams to bear on unpredictable market shifts with the greatest possible speed to win emerging markets. Innovation colonies will incubate, acquire, and invest as needed to stake their claim on the most potent technologies and trends ahead of the pack. Their autonomous management will keep their usual corporate instincts for self-protection and self-promotion in check. The managing directors, liberated from fealty to the enterprise budget, will navigate the market for the colony’s wares with a free hand. The colonists, beneficiaries of a growing portfolio of projects painstakingly tailored to the needs of real-world customers, will move their projects forward with singular ingenuity and focus.
Table of Contents
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Introduction
- Enterprises in Peril
- Startups Ascendant
- The Enterprise’s Dilemma
- Unleashing the Enterprise
- Why Intrapreneurship Fails
- Enter the Lean Startup
- New Tools For CFOs
- Dawn of the Lean Enterprise
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Chapter One: The Lean Enterprise Roadmap
- The Innovation Colony
- The Lean Startup Method
- Three Strategies
- Case Study: General Electric
- Case Study: Intuit
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Chapter Two: Strategy
- The Old Rules No Longer Apply
- A Framework For Action
- Fringe Benefits
- Case Study: Techstars
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Chapter Three: Corporate Structure
- From Skunkworks Onwards
- Enter the Innovation Colony
- Case Study: Qualcomm
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Chapter Four: Compensation
- The Power of the Upside
- Case Study: Hearst Entertainment
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Chapter Five: Vision and The Innovation Thesis
- Know the Market
- Formulate an Innovation Thesis
- Execute on the Thesis
- Case Study: Upfront Ventures
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Chapter Six: The Lean Enterprise Process
- Roots of the Lean Startup
- Quick Overview of the Experimentation Process
- Experimentation: Step By Step
- Javelin Board
- Case Study: Nordstrom
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Chapter Seven: Experimentation Methods
- Where to Find Customers
- Case Study: Comcast
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Chapter Eight: Innovation Accounting and Metrics
- Vanity Metrics vs. Actionable Metrics
- Building a Metrics Model
- Case Study: Learnist
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Chapter Nine: Incubate Internally
- Low Momentum, High Control
- Benefits
- Financing Internal Startups
- How to Incubate
- Case Study: News Corporation
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Chapter Ten: Acquire Early
- Who are you looking for?
- Choosing Acquisition Targets
- Structuring the Deal
- Pitfalls
- Case Study: Neopost
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Chapter Eleven: Invest When You Can’t Acquire
- Low Control, High Momentum
- Benefits of Investing
- Mechanics
- Vehicles
- Enterprise Investment Psychology
- Choosing Investments
- Case Study: Intel
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Chapter Twelve: Innovation Flow
- Stage 1: Limited-cost proof of concept.
- Stage 2: Vote of Confidence
- Stage 3: Expansion
- Stage 4: Full-scale
- Case Study: Intuit
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Epilogue
- Objections to the Lean Enterprise
- Building Innovation Empires
- The End of Entrepreneurship
- The Enterprise Innovation Era
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