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Ries: Enterprise CEOs cannot name anyone accountable for continuous innovation
“I ask these CEOs that I meet with all the time, who's in charge of making sure that that happens? And they don't know. There's not, there's nobody in the organization they can point to for accountability on that score.”
Ries: Most corporations planning internal startups lack an actual execution plan
“The idea that you're going to act like a startup or have internal startups is like almost to the point of cliche here. And yet most of the companies that I meet that have that as a plan, there's no plan. They don't actually know how to make it happen.”
Ries: USDS digitized 40% of immigration applications in six months
“They sent a lean startup team in, I think, from the United States Digital Service at the White House, and You know, they partnered. It wasn't just IT people coming and telling everybody what to do, but they had real partnership, real user centered design, real…”
Ries: Lean Startup reduced a client's hardware iteration cycle to one week
“And they eventually got to a place where they can show, they can iterate on this so quickly now, they can build a new version of that device every week. Used to take them three to six years to build a new model. Now they can do a new version every week.”
Ries: Consumer services will all be tech-enabled within 10 years
“I know that five or 10 years from now, the person who provides me this service, it's going to be technology enabled. It's going to be developed and According to these principles, it's going to be rapidly evolved to suit my needs.”
Ries: 'The Lean Startup' Focuses on Management Accounting, Not Jargon
“If you read the book, the vast majority of it, the bulk of it by weight is not about, you know, This jargon, but it's about the management system. It's about the innovation accounting. It's about the math that underlies this way of working.”