How to set up an innovation training program
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 this post gives you the three steps you need to get started on building an exceptional training program. […]
Faster horses logical fallacy
“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 adopters we reached out to a dozen of them to test some of our assumptions by asking specific questions. We prepared an interview […]
How to maximise learning from Playing Lean workshops
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 learning process. That’s why we always suggest you create opportunities for them in your Playing Lean workshops. How can you do that? […]
How to use Business Model Canvas to model two sided marketplace
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 the marketplace where supply and demand meets, and somehow make a living from it. Think of AirBnB, with the demand side […]
How Playing Lean helped laun an innovative business advice service for SMEs
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 came to sponsor Playing Lean Playing Lean 1 was the first Kickstarter I backed. I’d just read the Lean Startup by Eric Ries […]
Case Study: Mentive’s lean project
This is a guest post by Mentive – a company that has supported us in creating Playing Lean 2. Mentive is a Mexican startup that builds Digital Solutions focused on the e-commerce industry and provides services to boost sales for small and medium businesses. Its main purpose is to develop and grow in-house projects to create new sales […]
False negatives and false positives
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 should not. On the other hand, a false positive is a result that appears positive when it should not. Playing […]
Identifying existing alternatives
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 today – or in other words identify the existing alternatives. Ash Maurya writes: Your true competition is NOT determined by who you think they are, but who […]
How to do problem interviews
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 of the problem interview is to figure out who the early adopters of your product are going to be, what […]