LEAN INNOVATION GUIDE
A Proven Approach for Innovation Success
The Lean Innovation Guide summarizes for the first time the most important concepts of the Lean Startup and Lean Innovation method and offers with the Lean Progress Model the missing tool to lead innovation projects systematically and quickly to success. The book is structured along the Lean Progress Model and thus serves as a valuable ‘coach in your pocket’.
LEAN INNOVATION GUIDE
A Proven Approach for Innovation Success
The Lean Innovation Guide summarizes for the first time the most important concepts of the Lean Startup and Lean Innovation method and offers with the Lean Progress Model the missing tool to lead innovation projects systematically and quickly to success. The book is structured along the Lean Progress Model and thus serves as a valuable ‘coach in your pocket’.
THE LEAN PROGRESS MODEL
The meta model for Lean Innovation and Lean Startup
The Lean Progress Model serves as a meta model for the high-level and transparent management of startup and innovation projects.
It’s only with this model that you can really successfully use the Lean approach and master the associated challenges. The Lean Progress Model also makes it possible to clearly classify the countless sub-methods, aids and tools in terms of content and process.
Maximum Guidance
The Lean Progress Model shows only the most important six success factors of a startup or innovation project.
This allows you and your stakeholders to see at a glance how your project is currently doing. Without a business plan, there needs to be another transparent way to guide us and give us a sense as to where we currently find ourselves in the open exploration and learning process. The guidance should be as simple as possible.
Maximum Focus
The model, with its one guiding question and twelve sub-questions per success factor, helps us properly prioritize and maintain maximum focus while learning our way forward.
In open innovation processes, we are confronted by countless design possibilities. Over and over again, we are spoiled for choice, and it can be so easy to lose ourselves. This is why it is so important that we maintain our focus and prioritize the learning steps based on the risks.
Maximum Speed
Thanks to the color-coding in the model, we can identify the current status at a glance and are motivated to retest and optimize the open points as quickly as possible.
Many startup and innovation projects are much too slow from a learning process perspective. Insufficient speed represents one of the main sources of waste. The sooner we identify the route to success, the less we invest in going the wrong direction.
Lean Progress Model poster
Used as a poster, the Lean Progress Model becomes the central steering tool for your startup and innovation projects.
It is helpful to print the poster in a large format and hang it prominently in the main workspace. In addition to the central guiding questions, a backlog of hypotheses (inventory of assumptions to be tested) and an area for hypotheses that have already been tested are provided. With the help of sticky notes, the poster thus serves as a basis for agile project management.
THE LEAN PROGRESS MODEL
The meta model for Lean Innovation and Lean Startup
The Lean Progress Model serves as a meta model for the high-level and transparent management of startup and innovation projects.
It’s only with this model that you can really successfully use the Lean approach and master the associated challenges. The Lean Progress Model also makes it possible to clearly classify the countless sub-methods, aids and tools in terms of content and process.
Maximum Guidance
The Lean Progress Model shows only the most important six success factors of a startup or innovation project.
This allows you and your stakeholders to see at a glance how your project is currently doing. Without a business plan, there needs to be another transparent way to guide us and give us a sense as to where we currently find ourselves in the open exploration and learning process. The guidance should be as simple as possible.
Maximum Focus
The model, with its one guiding question and twelve sub-questions per success factor, helps us properly prioritize and maintain maximum focus while learning our way forward.
In open innovation processes, we are confronted by countless design possibilities. Over and over again, we are spoiled for choice, and it can be so easy to lose ourselves. This is why it is so important that we maintain our focus and prioritize the learning steps based on the risks.
Maximum Speed
Thanks to the color-coding in the model, we can identify the current status at a glance and are motivated to retest and optimize the open points as quickly as possible.
Many startup and innovation projects are much too slow from a learning process perspective. Insufficient speed represents one of the main sources of waste. The sooner we identify the route to success, the less we invest in going the wrong direction.
Lean Progress Model poster
Used as a poster, the Lean Progress Model becomes the central steering tool for your startup and innovation projects.
It is helpful to print the poster in a large format and hang it prominently in the main workspace. In addition to the central guiding questions, a backlog of hypotheses (inventory of assumptions to be tested) and an area for hypotheses that have already been tested are provided. With the help of sticky notes, the poster thus serves as a basis for agile project management.
FEEDBACK ON THE BOOK AND MODEL
“Every person involved with new business opportunities, products and services should own and use the Lean Innovation Guide.“
The book and the model appeal in principle to anyone concerned with innovative business opportunities, products and services, and added value for customers and users in general. (…) An investment that pays off several times.
“EVERYONE who wants to innovate or found a startup should have read this book. Highly recommended.“
Both in the concept of the Lean Progress Model and in its design, the book is a real recommendation. Step by step, David Griesbach builds his concept and takes you through all the considerations involved in a startup. (…) The author also manages to present the topics, ideas, models, and tools in a very condensed form. The sophisticated and very beautiful graphics help to quickly grasp the content.
“An exciting and highly topical book for anyone involved in lean and agile innovation processes.“
“We have all been waiting for this!“
The Lean Progress Model is the missing piece of the puzzle for Lean Startup and Lean Innovation in SMEs and large enterprises.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Griesbach, Dr. rer. soc. HSG (University of St. Gallen)
David Griesbach is the Swiss expert in Lean Innovation and Lean Startup For his doctoral thesis, he developed an approach that already anticipated the important elements of Lean Innovation. For twenty years he has been consulting and supporting businesses and other organizations at the intersection between strategy and innovation. Since 2013, David has been running one of Europe’s first and most intensive Lean Startup courses at the Lucerne School of Business in Switzerland. He is an acclaimed trainer, consultant, and sought-after keynote speaker.
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