title: The Lean Enterprise: How Corporations Can Innovate Like Startups
author:  Trevor Owens 
description: <span>"Presents a framework for companies to create an environment that empowers the greatest entrepreneurial talent to thrive inside the organization, retaining the greatest innovative minds and reaping the benefits of their greatest inventions."</span><br /><span><b>Brad Smith, Intuit President &amp; CEO</b></span><br /><br />"Corporations who miss this book have their days numbered."<b><br />Dave McClure, 500 Startups</b><br /><br /><span>"Provides savvy insights on the organizational structures, systems, and processes that will maximize success odds with corporate entrepreneurship."</span><br /><span><b>Professor Thomas Eisenmann, Harvard Business School</b></span><br /><br /><span>"New businesses aren't willed into existence by executives with brilliant ideas and big budgets. Incentives are everything in innovation and <i>The Lean Enterprise</i> sets the record straight."</span>
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  Acclaim for THE LEAN STARTUP
  
  
  Acclaim for THE LEAN STARTUP
  
  
  “The Lean Startup isn’t just about how to create a more successful
  entrepreneurial business; it’s about what we can learn from those businesses
  to improve virtual y everything we do. I imagine Lean Startup principles
  applied to government programs, to health care, and to solving the world’s
  great problems. It’s ultimately an answer to the question How can we learn
  more quickly what works and discard what doesn’t?”
  
  
  —Tim O’Reil y, CEO, O’Reil y Media
  
  
  “Eric Ries unravels the mysteries of entrepreneurship and reveals that magic
  and genius are not the necessary ingredients for success but instead proposes
  a scienti c process that can be learned and replicated. Whether you are a
  startup entrepreneur or corporate entrepreneur, there are important lessons
  here for you on your quest toward the new and unknown.”
  
  
  —Tim Brown, CEO, IDEO
  
  
  “The road map for innovation for the twenty-first century. The ideas in T