{"product_id":"the-lean-entrepreneurship-playbook-a-practical-guide-to-innovation-in-the-modern-enterprise-9798868801211","title":"The Lean Entrepreneurship Playbook: A Practical Guide to Innovation in the Modern Enterprise","description":"\u003cp\u003eEstablished organizations in both public and private sectors struggle to bring new, innovative ideas to life. Countless innovation programs have mixed track records, with most failing to deliver meaningful results. Many innovation initiatives fail because they do not get the momentum they need early on, they start in the wrong place, they are structured to deliver the wrong type of outcome, or they focus on the wrong problems and assumptions. There are many possibilities, and launching the wrong kind of program can doom an initiative before the first idea is generated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book takes you through a step-by-step approach that will enable you to select, structure, and deliver the right type of initiative to nurture and incubate \u003ci\u003eyour\u003c\/i\u003e new and innovative ideas, and ensure that they have the best possible chance to succeed. It discusses what must be considered to properly structure your program, including important differences required when delivering new programs, projects, or public sector initiatives, and insight on additional requirements if your solutions include physical components. It is filled with questions, examples, artifacts, and tools to help you make key choices, and includes frameworks and examples that will help accelerate your deployment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat You Will Learn\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuild your initiative or program, step-by-step, and measure its effectiveness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKnow what to consider when creating your innovation or incubation program, framework, or approach\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnderstand how innovative ideas differ, why that's important, and why different approaches are required for each\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelect and structure your initiative, program, or approach to bring new, valuable ideas to life, whether they are new products, new programs, or internal projects\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreate the conditions for repeatable innovation, acceleration, or incubation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKnow the common impediments to innovation in established public and private sector organizations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvoid the key obstacles and trapdoors to successful innovation and incubation initiatives and programs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSuccessfully prepare and lay a solid foundation for your initiative or program\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContinuously improve your program, framework, or approach\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho This Book Is For\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeople addressing impediments to incubating new ideas in established private\/public sector organizations such as: executives looking to deliver new ideas; people responsible for the creation and operation of incubation, innovation, and accelerator programs; business executives and leadership teams who are stagnating or shrinking; technical leaders struggling to deliver innovative products and programs; consultants helping organizations overcome innovation challenges; entrepreneurs; innovators working for mid- to large-sized organizations who are frustrated with roadblocks; program developers, program managers, Scrum masters, and product owners\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge is passionate about solving unsolved problems and applying technology in innovative ways to improve people's lives. Over his more than thirty years in the technology industry George discovered innumerable obstacles to bringing new ideas to life in established organizations and, more importantly, how they could be overcome.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs VP of Strategy for a multibillion-dollar technology company - and faced with a challenge to design, deploy, operate, and evolve an innovative start-up accelerator program - George created what became the foundation of the Lean Entrepreneurship approach to enable others to overcome those obstacles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThroughout his career, George delivered innovations of his own such as a knowledge base for a neural network-based predictive performance management solution, one of the earliest private clouds (2005), and a lightweight event management agent. 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