When: November 25, 10a PT Featuring:Brant Cooper and Carie Davis Who It’s For: Enterprise
Lean Startup is proving to be an effective innovation management practice–but mastering it requires fresh leadership. Transforming your organization into one that continuously innovates requires leaders who can create change. They must possess the ability to influence internal systems and to affect the culture of your organization. These leaders play a specific role: they are mentors.
Mentorship is not the same as management and does not come easy to most. But effective mentoring is critical to the success of internal innovation programs. The good news: your organization already has these future mentors in its midst. The trick: identifying them, nurturing them and empowering them to make a difference for others.
In this webcast, Carie Davis, Global Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Coca Cola, and Brant Cooper, founder of Moves The Needle and author of The Lean Entrepreneur, discuss the challenges of developing new leadership skills to support transformation within your organization. Join us to learn why the future of innovation leadership is mentorship!
When: Oct 28, 10a PT Featuring:Leanne Pittsford and Sarah Milstein Who It’s For: Non-profit, government and education leaders
We’ll look at how mission-driven organizations can apply Lean Startup to more effectively meet their goals. In describing the key ideas, we’ll show real-world examples and tackle the tough question of working with funders and other stakeholders when your organization changes the way it measures progress. You’ll come away with a sense of why and how to use Lean Startup techniques for social good.
When: Oct 2, 10a PT Featuring:Alistair Croll, Eric Ries and Danielle Morrill Who It’s For: Standalone startups; corporate innovators; non-profit, government and education leaders
When you’re developing a new product, or if you work in a mission-driven organization, measuring profit isn’t usually an appropriate way to gauge success. Instead, you need innovation accounting or learning milestones to figure out whether your product is gaining traction. But what should you actually measure? In this advanced discussion, we’ll debate the idea that there’s just one metric that matters for any given kind of product. You’ll come away with fresh ways to approach measurement.
When: September 25, 10a PT Featuring:Janice Fraser and Sarah Milstein Who It’s For: Standalone startups; corporate innovators; non-profit, government, and education leaders
We’ll explain the important concepts of Lean Startup, demystify the jargon and supply examples to help you understand what Lean Startup is good for and when you can use it. You’ll come away with an understanding of the method and what frequently-used terms like MVP, pivot and innovation accounting are really about.
Where Cloud Infrastructure Meets Lean Startup, sponsored by Rackspace
Speakers:Eric Ries and Wayne Walls
Date: January 17, 2014, 11:00 am – 11:45 am PST
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Join Eric Ries and Wayne Walls for a conversation about using cloud infrastructure to support Lean Startup practices. This discussion will help developers and executives learn how to turn cloud technologies into tangible returns with rapid experiments and other proven Lean Startup methods. Come with your questions, as the webcast includes live Q&A with attendees.
Applying Lean Startup to Enterprise Product Development Practices, sponsored by Modus Create
Join Eric Ries and Pat Sheridan for a conversation about how Lean Startup methodologies combine with Agile principles to get innovation off the whiteboard and into your product portfolio. This webcast addresses management issues, identities best practices for team structure and collaboration, and goes through real-world lessons. Come with your questions, as the webcast includes live Q&A with attendees.
Slow product cycles, massive bureaucracy, customers with conflicting interests–those are just a few of the challenges facing leaders in the education sector. And none of those conditions would seem to support Lean Startup principles. But sectors with the most entrenched systems often need innovation the most, and we’re impressed with the work Steven Hodas and Diane Tavenner have done to apply Lean Startup methods in New York and California schools, respectively. Join us for a webcast conversation about what’s worked and what hasn’t. Their conversation will be followed by live Q&A with the webcast attendees, so come with your questions in mind.
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Putting the “Lean” in Lean Startup
Speakers: Eric Ries and John Shook Date: November 18, 2013, 10:00am – 10:40am PST
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Although people sometimes think the “lean” part of Lean Startup refers to bootstrapping a company, it actually refers to the lean production systems pioneered decades ago by Toyota. John Shook, CEO of the Lean Enterprise Institute–the MIT spinoff that resulted from the research that coined the term “lean”–will join Eric for a conversation on the origins of the idea, how it relates to Lean Startup practices today and how understanding the connection can make your company’s approach much more profitable. More than just a theoretical discussion, this webcast will include deep insights for advanced entrepreneurs. John and Eric’s conversation will be followed by live Q&A with the webcast attendees, so come with your questions in mind.
Speakers: Eric Riesand Kent Beck Date: November 14, 2013, 1:00pm – 2:00pm PST
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Few people have as much insight as Kent Beck–a creator of Agile software development–into how product teams work, and how they can work better. In this webcast conversation, Kent and Eric Ries will talk about change: how to make your work more valuable as a product team leader or team member, and what succeeds and fails in getting people to adopt new ideas. This session is most directly relevant for engineering teams but will also have useful ideas for any product group. Kent and Eric’s conversation will be followed by live Q&A with the webcast attendees, so come with your questions in mind.
Lean Impact: Implementing Lean Startup in Mission-driven Organizations
Lean Startup ideas are being applied more and more often in non-profits, B-corps and other mission-driven organizations. As the ideas have spread in this world, they’ve come to be known as Lean Impact, and best practices are emerging. In this webcast, Christie George of New Media Ventures and Akash Trivedi of Kiva.org will discuss key Lean Impact approaches. Their conversation will be followed by live Q&A with the webcast attendees, so come with your questions in mind.
A key concept in Lean Startup is the Build-Measure-Learn loop. But what if you don’t know what to measure? All companies face challenges in determining useful metrics, but non-tech companies often have fewer benchmarks than their tech counterparts. In this free webcast, analytics experts Alistair Croll and Ben Yoskovitz will discuss practical approaches to the this problem. Their conversation will be followed by live Q&A with the webcast attendees, so come with your questions in mind.
Lean Startup methods are obviously applicable among young companies and teams that are looking to reduce uncertainty for new products. Once you’ve hit product-market fit, though, it’s tempting to shift out of the learning mode and focus fully on execution. But that invites a boom-and-bust cycle and prevents maturing organizations from finding steady sources of growth. In this webcast for advanced entrepreneurs, Eric Ries will talk with Palantir’s Ari Gesher and Shutterstock’s Wyatt Jenkins about the challenges of scaling a learning organization. Their discussion will be followed by live Q&A with the webcast attendees, so come with your questions in mind.
Lean Startup techniques aren’t just for young companies. In fact, they’ve been profitably applied in established companies like Intuit, GE, and Toyota. But there are particular challenges in bringing Lean Startup to enterprise corporations, and they aren’t always obvious. In this webcast, Eric Ries, Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits – all of whom have worked closely with Fortune 500 companies – will discuss some of the most common mistakes and paths to success that established firms can take in implementing Lean Startup methods. Their conversation will be followed by live Q&A with the webcast attendees, so come with your questions in mind.
Beyond Silicon Valley: Applying Lean Startup Around the Globe
Entrepreneurs outside Silicon Valley – including those in other countries – face unique challenges in successfully applying Lean Startup techniques to their businesses. To help you address those challenges, international Lean Startup experts Kevin Dewalt, Takashi Tsutsumi and Justin Wilcox will come together for a candid conversation. Their discussion will be followed by live Q&A with the webcast attendees, so come with your questions in mind.
Brought to you by The Lean Startup Conference, this live webcast goes back to our roots with deep information for developers. Featuring a conversation about Lean Startup engineering with Eric Ries and Dan Milstein, one of our most popular speakers last year, the session also includes ample time for live Q&A with attendees.
