The Innovator's Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization Hardcover – September 9, 2014

So I have never really been really involved with innovation or even business and entrepreneurship for that matter. I first began reading and thinking about it when I started talking to my cousin about it. He talked to me about innovation and the role that he thought it should play in businesses. And to be honest. It seemed like an obvious idea. Of course being innovative was important. But then when I thought about it more, I had no idea how to be innovative. I had no idea how to change the way I thought and expand on the ideas that were in my mind. I knew what needed to be done, but no idea how to do it. And even more so, no idea how to apply that to any type of organization. And that is where this book came in for me.The Innovator's Method builds upon the ideas presented in the Innovators DNA and expands those into a useful tool kit, a step by step process if you will on how to add innovation to your own organization. Innovators DNA told you that everyone can be innovative and even told you how to get to that point. Then Innovator's Method follows it up with telling you exactly how to apply those new skills of innovation to your own organization or business. It presented many of the ideas in a clear way, so that someone with little business experience (like my self) could still understand the topics and grasp the ideas with a little bit of thinking.

This book is a fantastic addition to any Lean Startup library. What I like about the book is that it brings concrete and clear guidelines to execute innovation inside your organization. Also it blends Design Thinking, Jobs to be Done and Lean startup tips and tricks. It's really an end to end process for creating, refining and bringing great ideas to market.The book uses the most important literature about Innovation, Jobs to be done, Design Thinking, Business Model generation and Lean Startup. It is also based on lots of personal interviews with entrepreneurs and teams executing innovative projects inside organizations. Intuit and Unilever are both examples of orgs used as examples. Great read and very practical guide!

Ok, this book seems like sooooo many other books on innovation. There are similarities but if you are motivated to find a way to make a breakthrough in your results (in life, business, etc.) this book has some great ideas. I particularly loved the section on V2MOM. Go ahead, read the book and find out. A good business book in the vein of business books and it's worth your time/effort/money.

Excellent book. Gained a lot of new insights.

A great follow up book to the innovators DNA in how to build a lean innovation process inside your organization. Dyer and Furr take the idea of the lean start-up and provide important context and process in bridging the gap between business model creation and successfully executing the business model. The book is complete with useful tools and rich examples of how to efficiently design and test products and solutions for the marketplace. A must read if executing on innovation is any part of your job description.

Awesome book with lots of practical examples. It is a great book for product managers and anyone in general who is looking to innovate, be it thinking about what's next for your product or just beginning to build that next billion dollar product business you have always dreamt of!

Highly repetitive, like most books of this type. after you've read the 1st chapter, there are only a few other pieces buried in the text. It is also somewhat intuitive.

As others have stated, it's a great book about managing innovation. Not only that it's comprehensive and it offers a structured approach to deal with the uncertainties of innovation, but also easy to read and gives lots of good examples that really solidify the concepts. I also like how it refers to other well-written books as well, including The Lean Startup, and how the materials here complement those books.