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Steve Blanks new book!

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I am part of the panel at small business can!

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Leanstartup Kanban prep

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At Scurri.com we have been influenced in the way we work by Lean Startup since we attended iGAP2 and Eric Ries encouraged me to launch during his workshop.  As we did not have our payment engine completed and our site was still weeks from going live, its seem ludicrous at the time.  However Eric is persuasive and convinced me to launch and at that moment we really started to learn about our business.  He was also right, its was some time later, and the payment engine was well built, before we had sorted out a few other issues in our funnel and we had our first payment.

Recently we have refocused on Eric’s material and we have started to use Innovation Accounting to measure how we are progressing.  Eric describes Innovation accounting as “turning leaps of faith into a quantitative financial model”.  But how does this practically work?  These are the three steps we established that we felt needed to be done to implement Innovation Accounting.

Innovation accounting works through three learning milestones.

1. Build a Minimal Viable Product (MVP) to establish real data on the assumption that you require to be tested.  This is your baseline.
2. Now use experiments to tune your “engine” from the baseline to the stated ideal.
3. Review progress toward the stated ideal and decide to either pivot (change direction) or persevere.

Check out my post at Scurri.com for more detail.

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The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method is an
amazing and very powerful method for unlocking the full potential of any
organisation. It helps people engage with and develop innovative
solutions to complex issues and my friends at Trivium partners have worked with the method
since it was developed at LEGO Company years ago.  In fact Per Kristiansen was part of the original team that worked on the concept.

Per’s next facilitator training is running in London from the 13th to the 16th of Feburary, anyone interested should contact Per directly:

Per at per.kristiansen@trivium.dk or by phone +45 27 11 18 12

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The famous Loftus Hall staircase!

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Starting to really look foolish now!

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I was recently asked by Fleur at the Wexford Management Forum to speak on my Change Management Experience over the years.  In my time I have been involved in manufacturing restructures, ERP system implementations, business acquisitions, business divestment’s, departmental restructures, CRM system implementations and lots lots more.

My experience is that any change process needs a combination of good process and understanding the emotional or people side of the change.  Whilst communication is key, its really understanding and getting across the what, why, how and  when is the important thing.   I have tried to put up the slides that I have found useful and used on the night to support my talk, but they are too large.  If anyone is interested in them email me and we can make arrangements using dropbox.

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