Innovation - what can we learn from start-ups?

Welcome to the next level, which asks the question - "What can we learn from start-ups?"

Methodologies from the official website of all things Lean Startup presented by Eric Ries.

How Eric Ries developed a scientific method for launching profitable companies

We live in an age of unparalleled opportunity for innovation. We're building more products than ever before, but most of them fail.

Capture your business model or idea in a one page diagram. The Lean Canvas is perfect for brainstorming business models.
This is a step by step guide to creating your canvas.

If you are spending more than 20 minutes on your initial business model canvas, you are doing it wrong. This video will show you how to capture your core business proposition in a one page diagram that's easy to communicate and build on.

Balance is important and Lean star-tup is popular, but often criticised. Which aspects would you find hard to accept from the approach?

There's huge crossover between lean startup, design thinking and agile so it makes sense to understand each of them a little. The first 6-7 pages of this PDF explain the thinking behind the IDEO or Stanfrod dschool approach to design thinking. The rest of the doc is a toolkit of methods to help you put it into practice.

Martin Couzins talks to Sam Burrough about design thinking and why learning professionals should use it in their practice.

To find out where great business ideas come from, we turned to the experts—investors, advisers and professors who have seen and heard countless success stories, as well as entrepreneurs who have written success stories of their own. They saw inspiration coming from all sorts of sources—everyday puzzles, driving passions and the subconscious mind.

This is a course within a course really. If you have time, this series will help you understand the Lean Canvas approach.

Create a lean canvas template online and edit it with your team with this free tool