Despite significant investments of time and money, are we truly addressing the social and environmental challenges we face? A new generation is seeking meaningful purpose beyond profit. However, unlike businesses, few social initiatives have achieved substantial impact at scale. Inspired by modern innovation practices from The Lean Startup, Lean Impact focuses on achieving radically greater social good. Social change is more complex than developing an app; it demands deeper listening, care, and the involvement of various stakeholders. To create lasting change, solutions must resonate with beneficiaries, tackle root causes, and incorporate mechanisms for growth to meet the scale of need. This work presents bold ideas for achieving ambitious goals through customer insights, rapid experimentation, and a relentless focus on impact. Ann Mei Chang offers a unique viewpoint from her diverse experiences, including her role as a tech executive in Silicon Valley and as Chief Innovation Officer at USAID. The book is enriched with real stories from interviews with over 200 organizations globally. Whether you are part of a nonprofit, social enterprise, foundation, government agency, or simply contribute your time and resources, this guide is essential for maximizing social impact and achieving scale.
Eric Ries Kolejność książek (chronologicznie)







La startup way
- 340 stron
- 12 godzin czytania
The Startup Way reveals how organisations of all sizes can harness startup techniques to drive growth. In The Lean Startup, Eric Ries, Entrepreneur in Residence at Harvard, created a global movement. Concepts like constant iteration, minimal viable products (MVPs), and pivoting have changed the language of business. Now he turns his attention to companies and organizations of all sizes. Ries has been working with giant firms like General Electric and Toyota to help them become more nimble, in order to spur growth and produce products and services that customers want. In The Startup Way, he shares his insights, stories and best practices, delivering a critical toolkit to solve all business challenges. Today every company needs to get faster and smarter. Read The Startup Wayand discover how to embrace change, survive and thrive.
Are you a high potential charting your course within your current organization, a leader trying to jumpstart innovative thinking in your company? Or are you ready to do something new? Consider this simple yet powerful idea: disruptive companies and ideas upend markets by doing something truly different – they see a need, an empty space waiting to be filled, and they dare to create something for which a market may not yet exist. An expert in driving innovation via personal disruption, Whitney Johnson, will help you understand how the frameworks of disruptive innovation can apply to you: if you want to be successful in unexpected ways, follow your own disruptive path. Dare to innovate. Dream big dreams. Do something astonishing. Disrupt yourself. In this book, you will learn how to apply these frameworks to building a business, career – and you. We are living in an era of accelerating disruption – those who can manage the S-curve waves of learning and maxing out will have a competitive advantage. But this is a skill set that needs to be learned. Disrupt Yourself will help people cope with the unpredictability of disruption, and use it to their competitive advantage.
Running Lean
- 207 stron
- 8 godzin czytania
Offers a systematic approach to product/market fit, discussing customer involvment, optimal time to obtain funding, and when to change the plan.
Lean UX. Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience
- 148 stron
- 6 godzin czytania
User experience (UX) design has traditionally been a deliverables-based practice, with wireframes, site maps, flow diagrams, and mockups. But in today’s web-driven reality, orchestrating the entire design from the get-go no longer works. This hands-on book demonstrates Lean UX, a deeply collaborative and cross-functional process that lets you strip away heavy deliverables in favor of building shared understanding with the rest of the product team. Lean UX is the evolution of product design; refined through the real-world experiences of companies large and small, these practices and principles help you maintain daily, continuous engagement with your teammates, rather than work in isolation. This book shows you how to use Lean UX on your own projects. Get a tactical understanding of Lean UX—and how it changes the way teams work together Frame a vision of the problem you’re solving and focus your team on the right outcomes Bring the designer’s tool kit to the rest of your product team Break down the silos created by job titles and learn to trust your teammates Improve the quality and productivity of your teams, and focus on validated experiences as opposed to deliverables/documents Learn how Lean UX integrates with Agile UX
Znajdujemy się u progu nowego stulecia zarządzania. Przez lata udało nam się wypracować doskonałe metody zarządzania dużymi firmami, jednak w kwestii startupów i innowacji nadal działamy po omacku. Niniejsza książka stawia pierwsze solidne fundamenty dla przedsiębiorczości w nowych czasach. Stworzony przez autora ruch Lean Startup dąży do tego, abyś mógł stworzyć kolejny hit rynkowy za pomocą najnowocześniejszych narzędzi. Bez względu na to, czy jesteś przedsiębiorcą z własnym startupem, czy też działasz w strukturach dużej organizacji, znajdziesz tu bardzo ważne wskazówki, które przydadzą Ci się na drodze w nieznane. Poznaj praktyczne metody pozwalające unikać błędów w rozwoju produktu, naucz się systematycznie oceniać i interpretować wczesne sygnały płynące z rynku, a także decydować, czy należy wykonać zwrot, czy trwać przy dotychczasowych działaniach. Korzystaj z wiedzy innowatorów, którzy wprowadzili swoje firmy na szczyt, i dołącz do tego szacownego grona. Eric Ries jest przedsiębiorcą i autorem bloga Startup Lessons Learned. Jest współzałożycielem IMVU, gdzie pełnił również funkcję dyrektora technologicznego. Był to jego trzeci startup. Często przemawia podczas różnych wydarzeń biznesowych, a także doradza wielu startupom, dużym przedsiębiorstwom oraz firmom inwestycyjnym w zakresie strategii biznesowej i strategii rozwoju produktu. Pełni funkcję przedsiębiorcy-rezydenta w Harvard Business School.
Black Art of Java Game Programming
- 900 stron
- 32 godziny czytania
Step-by-step instructions, covering all the hottest techniques for creating dynamic games and interactive graphical environments using Java 1.1.-- Covers all the essentials of Java for graphics and game development-- Shows how to write interactive video games for the Web, playable by millions around the world-- Presents unique networking techniques for multi-user environments-- CD-ROM contains complete Java source and byte codes to the class libraries and games developed, plus games, third-party applets, and development tools


