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Testing Business Ideas: A Field Guide for Rapid Experimentation Paperback – Illustrated, 25 October 2019
David J. Bland (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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A practical guide to effective business model testing
7 out of 10 new products fail to deliver on expectations. Testing Business Ideas aims to reverse that statistic. In the tradition of Alex Osterwalder’s global bestseller Business Model Generation, this practical guide contains a library of hands-on techniques for rapidly testing new business ideas.
Testing Business Ideas explains how systematically testing business ideas dramatically reduces the risk and increases the likelihood of success for any new venture or business project. It builds on the internationally popular Business Model Canvas and Value Proposition Canvas by integrating Assumptions Mapping and other powerful lean startup-style experiments.
Testing Business Ideas uses an engaging 4-color format to:
- Increase the success of any venture and decrease the risk of wasting time, money, and resources on bad ideas
- Close the knowledge gap between strategy and experimentation/validation
- Identify and test your key business assumptions with the Business Model Canvas and Value Proposition Canvas
A definitive field guide to business model testing, this book features practical tips for making major decisions that are not based on intuition and guesses. Testing Business Ideas shows leaders how to encourage an experimentation mindset within their organization and make experimentation a continuous, repeatable process.
- ISBN-101119551447
- ISBN-13978-1119551447
- Edition1st
- PublisherWiley
- Publication date25 October 2019
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions23.88 x 2.29 x 18.8 cm
- Print length368 pages
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From the Publisher
David J. Bland Author and founder based in Silicon Valley who helps companies find growth using ?Lean Startup? methods, design thinking, and business model innovation.
Alex Osterwalder Lead author of the international bestsellers Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design; #7 on the ?Thinkers 50? list; passionate entrepreneur; and in-demand speaker.
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Your #1 job as an innovator, entrepreneur, or corporation is to test your business ideas to reduce the risk of failure.
Seven out of ten new products fail to deliver on expectations. Testing Business Ideas aims to reverse that statistic. In the tradition of the global bestseller Business Model Generation, this practical guide contains a library of hands-on techniques for rapidly testing new business ideas.
You’ll learn the process, design your first experiment, and start testing business ideas. If you’re already familiar with testing, you can boost your skills with the extensive library of tests. Lastly, you'll learn to scale testing systematically in your organization through ceremonies and shared language. It’s time to move past opinions and bulletproof your ideas with evidence today.
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Your #1 job as an innovator, entrepreneur, or corporation is to test your business ideas to reduce the risk of failure.
Seven out of ten new products fail to deliver on expectations. Testing Business Ideas aims to reverse that statistic. In the tradition of the global bestseller Business Model Generation, this practical guide contains a library of hands-on techniques for rapidly testing new business ideas.
You’ll learn the process, design your first experiment, and start testing business ideas. If you’re already familiar with testing, you can boost your skills with the extensive library of tests. Lastly, you’ll learn to scale testing systematically in your organization through ceremonies and shared language. It’s time to move past opinions and bulletproof your ideas with evidence today.
About the Author
David J. Bland Author and founder based in Silicon Valley who helps companies find growth using “Lean Startup” methods, design thinking, and business model innovation.
Alex Osterwalder Lead author of the international bestsellers Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design; #7 on the “Thinkers 50” list; passionate entrepreneur; and in-demand speaker.
Product details
- Publisher : Wiley; 1st edition (25 October 2019)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 368 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1119551447
- ISBN-13 : 978-1119551447
- Dimensions : 23.88 x 2.29 x 18.8 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 7,104 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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About the authors
Dr. Alexander (Alex) Osterwalder is one of the world's most influential strategy and innovation experts, a leading author, entrepreneur, and in-demand speaker whose work has changed the way established companies do business and how new ventures get started.
Ranked No. 4 of the top 50 management thinkers worldwide, Osterwalder is known for simplifying the strategy development process and turning complex concepts into digestible visual models. Together with Yves Pigneur, he invented the Business Model Canvas, Value Proposition Canvas, and Business Portfolio Map - practical tools that are trusted by millions of business practitioners from leading global companies including Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Nestlé, MasterCard, Sony, Fujitsu, 3M, Intel, Roche, Colgate-Palmolive, and many more.
Strategyzer, the company Osterwalder co-founded in 2010, is an innovation powerhouse, providing online courses, applications, and technology-enabled services to help organizations effectively and systematically manage strategy, growth, and transformation.
Osterwalder's books include the international bestseller Business Model Generation, Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want and Testing Business Ideas, and his forthcoming book for senior leaders, The Invincible Company, to publish in spring 2020.
He holds the Strategy Award from Thinkers50 and the European Union's inaugural Innovation Luminary Award. In 2019, Osterwalder chaired the prestigious Drucker Forum, the premier annual business management conference. A frequent and popular keynote speaker, Osterwalder travels the world discussing his ideas and strategies at Fortune 500 companies, premiere innovation conferences, and leading universities.
He holds a doctorate from HEC Lausanne, Switzerland, and is a founding member of The Constellation, a global not-for-profit organization connecting local responses to global issues around the world.
David J. Bland is a founder, author, speaker and advisor who resides in Northern California. David helps companies find product market fit and growth using lean startup, design thinking and business model innovation.
In 2015, David created Precoil to help companies test new products and services. He's worked with companies such as GE, Adobe, Toyota, HP, Behr and others all around the world.
Prior to Precoil, David was a Principal at both Neo and BigVisible. He made the switch to advising around 2010 and prior to that, spent over 10 years of his career scaling technology startups.
He continues to give back to the startup community by teaching at several startup accelerators in Silicon Valley.
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My biggest complain is the paper. It is so flimsy you can see previos pages. Feels translucent and colours are somewhat less striking.
My guess is the printer tried to accommodate 50 pages in the previous size and weight, but in the end is just a low quality print what you get in your shelf.
If you are into books, this one will disappoint you, specially if you own the previous one.



Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 January 2021


