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Top 10 Benefits Of Lean

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Lean is a methodology that can be applied to all disciplines of knowledge work to increase business efficiency, agility, and visibility. Due to its roots in manufacturing, Lean is often equated with the elimination of waste, but this view of Lean misses the mark on realizing its true value. Lean Transformations.

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[Review] The Lean Startup

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Enter “ The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses “, a New York Times bestseller by founder of IMVU (creator of 3D avatars) Eric Ries. Not doing so would end up in wasteful innovations and features that customers do not want.

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[Review] The Lean Startup

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Many people tend to neglect the execution aspect, and Eric Rie’s “ The Lean Startup ” provides a starting point to this by fleshing out the principles of building a profitable company. In fact, the crux of the book is that entrepreneurship is an endeavor that can be taught and refined.

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Taking The LEAN Approach: James Morgan On Why it’s Important To Stay On Top of Your Business Processes

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Promoting the flow of value to the customer is key. When it comes to promoting the flow of value to the customer, an excellent methodology is the LEAN approach, in other words, through two guiding tenets: continuous improvement and respect for people. What is the LEAN approach? Born in the field of manufacturing.

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The Importance Of Keeping Your Startup Lean

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This is where keeping your startup lean comes in. A lean startup only spends money on things it absolutely needs. I recently spoke with a friend of mine who runs a successful chain of Toronto Massage Companies who credits keeping her startup lean with much of her early success. It cross trains employees to keep the ship small.

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Minimum Viable Persona – Get To Know Your Customers All Over Again

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That means in order to maintain a connection, marketers have to get to know their customers all over again. But the traditional approach of spending many months conducting surveys to craft perfect, data-centric customer personas and buying journeys just isn’t going to cut it in these fast-changing times. Why Minimum Viable Personas.

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(C)lean Messaging: How To Make Your Great Idea Appeal To The Masses

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by Scott Brown, Executive Director at UpRamp and author of “ (C)lean Messaging “ Every aspiring entrepreneur lives in pursuit of that lightbulb moment. What is (C)lean Messaging? The (C)lean Messaging framework is the first step. (C)lean This is what your customer wants: What problem do they face that you can solve?

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