
A Lean Startup Definition of Innovation
In my previous post, I wrote about the false choices that innovators face. These choices seem to present teams with the option of using business plans

Business Plan or Just Do It – This Innovator’s Choice Is A False Narrative
Innovation is hard work. Creating great products that succeed on the market is a really difficult endeavor. You can ask any startup founder. But my

How To Manage Innovation Without Business Plans
The Fallacy of Planning (Part Three) This is the third and final post in a series posts about the limitations of using business planning to

Five Reasons Why Business Plans Don’t Work for Innovation
This is a follow-up on my last post on business plans which argued that most large companies have processes designed to deny investment in new product ideas,

You Have NO Business Plan? How Could We Possibly Invest?
Steve Blank likes to joke that the two groups of people that require five year plans are Venture Capitalists and the Soviet Union. I would

How Large Companies Can Act Like Startups
In a previous post on this topic, I argued that large companies are not startups, nor should they strive to be. My argument was based

What Disruption Looks Like
Much has been written about the changing landscape in the business of education. Christensen’s Disrupting Class is a great book, so is Kevin Carey’s The End of College:

Large Companies Are Not Startups…
Nor should they strive to be. In fact, most startups want to become successful companies. It might be cool to be a founder, but very