Quality Alchemist (品質煉金術師): Leader 2030 Webinar – Lean Startup: Quick Innovation Strategy

2025年3月7日星期五

Leader 2030 Webinar – Lean Startup: Quick Innovation Strategy

The Executive Study Group (ESG) webinar named “Leader 2030 – Lean Startups: Quick Innovation Strategy: How Traditional Companies Accelerate Innovation Speeds” was held by Asia Pacific Institute for Strategy Limited (APIFS) on 7^th Mar 2025. Dr. Mark Lee introduced the goal of Leader 2030 before the webinar (See reference).

In the beginning, Dr. Mark Lee quoted Prof. Steve Blank (Stanford University) that Lean Startups practices did not only for young tech ventures but also large companies.

Then he introduced the 4 stages of “Lean Startups”. The first two steps are Customer Discovery and Validation that belongs the first part “Search”. The second part “Execution” included the last two steps and they are Customer Creation and Company Building.

Lean Startups Re-entrepreneurship (LSR) included three elements and they are Business Model Canvas (BMC), Hypothesis Quick Test (HQT) and Minimum Viable Products (MVP). Dr. Lee reviewed BMC of last webinar.

Then he also reviewed the HQT – Test Card 4 steps and they are Hypothesis, Test, Metric and Criteria.

And then Dr. Lee briefed the Minimum Viable Products (MVP) that need to fulfill two critical factors and they are customer found it valuable and rapid growth rate.

Dr. Mark Lee use Facebook, Blue River Technology and GE as examples to explain lean startups practices.

After that he mentioned the multiple rounds using BMC → MVP deployment of HQT and got customer feedback for quick experimentation.

Finally, he compared the traditional company culture and lean startup culture from Strategy, New-product process and Engineering.

As well as, compared from Organization, Financial Reporting, Failure and Speed.

Lastly, he polled to survey our company ready for Lean Startup’ unique culture or not. Around 60% replied agree / highly agree their company ready for this culture change.