Digital by Default

Tag: lean startup

  • [Book report] The Startup Way

    ‘The Lean Startup’ by Eric Ries genuinely had a massive effect on me and my career. I read it in 2012 — about the same time as the whole GDS thing was really kicking off — and it was a heady mix of reading things that formalised a lot of what I had cobbled together as my own ways…

  • Making the most of attending #theleanevent

    These days it is pretty rare for me to attend conferences that I am not speaking at and like at least one of the speakers at this conference this means the rest of the talks somewhat wash over me as I stress about my own. I was determined to make the most of this opportunity…

  • The Lean Event — Day Two

    day one The strategy myth Josh Seiden People say Lean methods are not strategic — that they allow you to test your strategic ideas, but do not allow you to set strategy. This is a misunderstanding of both strategy and of lean methods. Strategy is not, as some would hold, a detailed plan that you hand off to…

  • What If…? The proposed ‘Office for Students’ was treated like a start-up* from day one

    Last week the ‘Higher Education Green Paper’ was released for consultation. You can read a useful summary over on Times Higher and a whole bunch of useful analysis at WonkHE (with my former colleague David Kernohan contributing some great stuff.) Now I don’t really have anything to say about the paper itself (other than the…

  • Late to the ‘Lean’ Party

    As is my tradition at this point I was reading the latest Wired magazine while sat on the floor of a crowded train coming back from London. Usually I skim through the articles while trying not to get stood on by stressed commuters and just identify which order I’ll end up reading the longer pieces.…