The Lean Enterprise: How Corporations Can Innovate Like Startups

The size of an organization and its ability to innovate are known to have an inverse relationship. Small startups innovate quickly, while large enterprises develop new products with a time to market that is longer than the average person's job role. While many areas of the economy are seeing limited growth, the startup community is thriving, and large enterprises have taken notice. Among them, the US Postal Service, General Electric, American Express, Lockheed Martin, Sony, and others, are investing significant resources in both training and infrastructure based on the concept of The Lean Startup. Pioneered by Eric Ries and developed in Silicon Valley, Lean Startup provides a structure for an entirely new way of doing business.

The book will cover:

Enterprise Lean Startup
Innovation Lab
Corporate Venture Fund
Corporate Development
(Lean) Startup Tools
(Lean) Startup Metrics

This book will focus on methods, time tables, compensation, financial investment, and case studies on successful enterprise product development, the development innovation labs, corporate venture arms, and acquisition & integration of startups

TREVOR OWENS is an entrepreneur and thought leader in Lean Startup methodologies. He is the Founder and CEO of Javelin.com, an innovation training and software company known for its Lean Startup Machine workshop that has helped tens of thousands of innovators, including those from Google, Salesforce, News Corp, Intuit, and others, start thousands of new businesses across six continents.

http://leanenterprisebook.com

http://javelin.com

OBIE FERNANDEZ is an avid writer and technology enthusiast. He works with Owens as the Co-Founder and CTO of Javelin.com. Fernandez is also author of the best selling technology book The Rails Way and the founder of multiple successful companies, including one of the world’s best known Ruby on Rails web design and development agencies, Hashrocket.

http://obiefernandez.com