Insights on Lean Startup, innovation, and entrepreneurship
2023-10-19
In Playing Lean 2 we wanted to capture the fact that reality is less linear. Opportunities will come and go and can’t necessarily be saved for later. Now teams can improve their abilities by bidding…
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In this blog post, we will dive into our past Playing Lean Expert webinar with Sean Buckland in which he introduced two simple and effective ways to help you keep your eyes wide open to finding the…
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In the Lean Startup we have to know what phase of the lifecycle of the product we are at. There are four phases: Business modelling Problem/solution fit phase Product/market fit phase Scale
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Pivoting and iterating is an essential part of Lean Startup. You are probably already very well acquainted with what a pivot means and what it brings.
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Last year in our Playing Lean expert webinar we dived deep into professionalizing lean innovation in the company and what conditions are needed to be set up to achieve it.
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\"Tell Me and I Will Forget; Show Me and I May Remember; Involve Me and I Will Understand.\"
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In one of our Playing Lean expert webinars we had the pleasure of having Cris Beswick as our guest speaker, an advisor to some of the world’s most successful companies, to hear his thoughts on…
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We continue our Playing Lean Expert webinar series with Sean Buckland, the owner of a consultancy company Design for Service.
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In our Playing Lean Expert webinar series we have hosted some of the best practitioners in the world to discuss innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership and culture, such as Katie Anderson, Cris…
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If you ever watched the hit-series Silicon Valley, you may remember one of the early episodes when the series’ main startup Pied Piper got their algorithm stolen, or as they called it - they got…
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Last year, the dreadful 2020, although full of uncertainty, for us was a chance to bring some light to our community with quality webinars, hosting some of the best practitioners in the world to…
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Read more →2020-05-07
We’ve wrapped up our business modelling webinars with an insight into the upcoming Business Modelling Facilitator training which is launching soon! In the last two weeks we went through why business…
Read more →2020-04-30
In just two weeks we are launching our new Business Modelling Facilitator training . We have received a lot of questions about it, so we thought it would be best to hold three webinars on the topic…
Read more →2020-04-24
In just two weeks we are going to launch our new Business Modelling Facilitator training . This has been a frequent request from our Facilitators, and now it seems to be more important than ever. To…
Read more →2020-04-20
Have you ever wondered why are there so many canvases out there? It seems like every consultant or boutique agency in the innovation space has at least one. Well, we can blame that on the success of…
Read more →2020-04-13
If your innovation teams are not creating reusable knowledge then they are creating waste by (most likely accidentally) discarding knowledge! Remember, kids, the only difference between screwing…
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Triumph of the Lean Production System by John Krafcik is the first paper on what is today known as Lean Thinking. It came out of the MIT International Motor Vehicle Program, as a part of the research…
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If you want to master the Lean Startup you need to have the right mindset, processes and tools. With a deluge of books it is difficult to understand which are worth your time, and will actually get…
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You may work at a university, or you may be putting together a training program for the people at work or a new client. Either way, you’re an educator who wants to teach people about innovation and…
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In my work helping large corporations innovate and transform I usually encounter two distinct types of intrapreneurs: innovator and innovation manager. What’s the difference? Innovator is passionate…
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SUCCEEDING AS AN INNOVATION COACH Starting out as an innovation coach is something special. Just as you’re teaching others how to innovate and succeed, you have to remember that the same lessons go…
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At Playing Lean, our customers are heroes. Innovation heroes, to be precise. They are people who try to make the world a better place. Not necessarily by themselves, but by helping others innovate…
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Most coaches and consultants use Playing Lean as the initial part of a training session or a longer engagement. They do that because Playing Lean creates enthusiasm and makes players curious and…
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We just had the perfect customer interview!“ A product lead I was coaching shared with great excitement how they conducted their best customer interview to date. “Once we had described our early…
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If you finish your Playing Lean workshop when one of the teams reaches the red tile you are missing a big learning opportunity! Recollection and synthesis are an important part of an effective…
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When you’re building a two sided marketplace business, you’re essentially building two businesses at the same time - one for the demand side and one for the supply side. Your startup aims to deliver…
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The road to creating any great product is a bumpy one with many learning curves. In one of our previous webinars, game creator Simen told the story of all the bumps that Playing Lean went through…
Read more →2019-12-13
Board games are great at teaching innovation . They’re a lot more engaging and memorable than just a presentation. Here’s a list of three good games that we have tested in the Playing Lean team -…
Read more →2019-11-29
Design for Service is a consultancy company that has backed Playing Lean twice on Kickstarter. This is a guest post by Sean Buckland, owner of the company and his case study. How Design for Service…
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Last year was an exciting year, with a successful Kickstarter campaign behind us that helped fund the production of a new Playing Lean game - the second edition, and new scenarios to expand the game…
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When the idea for Playing Lean first came to Simen back in 2013, the goal was to make a game that would teach people Lean Startup in a fun way. We never thought that this idea would later grow in…
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False negative and false positive are two terms that can cause a lot of discussions and misunderstandings. To put is as simple as possible, a false negative is a result that appears negative when it…
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So, you have identified, listed, and described your customer's top 3 problems through structured Problem Interviews . Now your next step is to assess how are your customers solving those problems…
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Together with Olav Loen we are now working on a digital version on Playing Lean. In this process we want to “practice what we preach” and have a lean startup approach to the entire process. The goal…
Read more →2016-07-10
Even the birds up on the trees know that Twitter was launched in 2006 and that today it is one of the leading social networks worldwide with about 320 million active users . However, few of us know…
Read more →2016-06-26
Trevor Owens , CEO and Founder, describes Lean Startup Machine as a start-up boot-camp that follows a rigorous process, bringing some of the best start-up mentors in your community to come and coach…
Read more →2016-06-12
Before creating and growing Facebook into a social networking behemoth it is today, with more than 13 000 employees and over 1 billion active users, Mark Zuckerberg invented Facemash. HARVARD'S AM I…
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The concept of pivoting is explicitly mentioned in several Experiment Cards. Some players have experienced having to change their product a lot during the game. Today we will take a closer look at…
Read more →2016-05-16
If you have played Playing Lean before you remember “Company Cards”. Company Cards are the predefined contextual setting of the game: Four social media startups in recent history, Friendsta…
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In this blog post you can read about the eleven key concepts in Playing Lean that relates to the Lean Startup and how the board game conveys those concepts through the gaming experience. These are…
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