Change Initiatives Archives

Just Sell the Results to Reduce Perception of Risk

Sean Murphy explains to a client why startups should just sell the results to reduce a prospect’s perception of risk in a new tool. […]

By Sean Murphy|2021-04-20T18:54:52-08:00April 20th, 2021|2 Open for Business Stage, 3 Early Customer Stage, Change Initiatives, Customer Development, Sales, skmurphy|0 Comments

Scale by Understanding Your Value Stream: Slides and Video Recap

Martha Ryan and Terry Frazier offered a briefing on how to “Scale by Understanding Your Value Stream” at the Lean Culture Meetup on Feb-25-2021. Here is a recap of the event that includes slides and video. […]

By Sean Murphy|2021-03-02T18:42:59-08:00March 2nd, 2021|Change Initiatives, Events, Intrapreneur, skmurphy|0 Comments

Joe Rogan: Be the Hero of Your Own Movie

Some thoughts on heroes using Joe Rogan’s admonition to “Be the hero of your own movie. If your life was a movie and it started now, what would the hero do right now?” as a point of departure. […]

By Sean Murphy|2020-10-19T19:37:51-08:00October 11th, 2020|Change Initiatives, skmurphy|1 Comment

Jeff Allison: An Executive Briefing on Microservices

Jeff Allison offered an executive briefing on microservices at the SF Bay ACM Meetup on Wed-Aug-19. Here is the video, slides, and notes on the talk. […]

By Sean Murphy|2020-08-19T20:29:05-08:00August 20th, 2020|Change Initiatives, Events, skmurphy, Video|0 Comments

On-Line Mastermind Group for Intrapreneurs and Change Agents

We are looking for new members for our on-line Mastermind Group for Intrapreneurs and Change Agents. […]

By Sean Murphy|2019-12-03T21:43:48-08:00December 3rd, 2019|Change Initiatives, skmurphy|0 Comments

Getting Oriented to a Subculture or Community of Practice

Birds of a feather flock together: in addition to asking for referrals, entrepreneurs exploring a new market are well advised to ask early prospects what groups or communities they belong to. Here are some techniques we have found useful for getting oriented to a subculture or community of practice. [...]

By Sean Murphy|2019-08-30T17:26:27-08:00August 30th, 2019|Change Initiatives, checklist, Community of Practice, skmurphy|0 Comments

Scott Berkun: How to Translate Observations and Creative Insight Into a Solution

In “The Dance of the Possible,” Scott Berkun outlines four tests for understanding the real work involved to translate observations and creative insight into a solution. […]

By Sean Murphy|2019-08-08T15:04:04-08:00August 7th, 2019|1 Idea Stage, Change Initiatives, Design of Experiments, MVP, skmurphy|0 Comments

Q: What Makes a Product Attract Early Adopters?

The following is an edited version of a recent online conversation I had with a team of bootstrappers about how to make their product attract early adopters. […]

By Sean Murphy|2019-08-01T23:23:46-08:00August 1st, 2019|3 Early Customer Stage, Change Initiatives, Customer Development, skmurphy|0 Comments

Learning from John Perry Barlow’s Principles of Adult Behavior

When John Perry Barlow turned 30 in 1977 he wrote a set of 25 “Principles of Adult Behavior” that he asked his friends to hold him accountable to. Here are a few I want to incorporate into my life. […]

By Sean Murphy|2019-01-23T15:59:43-08:00January 20th, 2019|2 Open for Business Stage, Change Initiatives, Team, Uncategorized|0 Comments

7 Sets of Insights from “Organize for Complexity” by Niels Pflaeging

Here are seven sets of insights from “Organize for Complexity” by Niels Pflaeging that I found useful for entrepreneurs who scaling their startup and intrapreneurs who are driving change in large organizations. […]

By Sean Murphy|2018-10-26T16:18:09-08:00October 24th, 2018|5 Scaling Up Stage, Change Initiatives, skmurphy, Team|1 Comment

Derek Sivers: How to Start a Movement

In February 2010 Derek Sivers gave a great talk on “How to Start a Movement” that offered some important tips for leaders and but offered the surprising conclusion that concluded that the most important and underappreciated key to a successful movement was the follower’s courage to follow and ability to [...]

By Sean Murphy|2018-09-06T22:28:49-08:00September 1st, 2018|3 Early Customer Stage, Change Initiatives, Community of Practice, MVP, skmurphy|0 Comments

Mapping Capability Development to New Product Design and Delivery

This is a first pass at development dependency “pinwheel” model for intrapreneurs fostering new capability development and executives adjusting a product roadmap for development risk. […]

By Jeff Allison|2018-07-06T18:33:14-08:00March 9th, 2018|5 Scaling Up Stage, Change Initiatives, Intrapreneur, skmurphy|0 Comments

Managing Change in an Organization: An Incomplete Resource List

Some models I like for change management in organizations. Startup entrepreneurs frequently have to navigate the challenges managing change as a part of the sales process. Intrapreneurs should find this list useful as well. I welcome any suggestions for additions, refinements, or improvements. […]

By Sean Murphy|2020-03-11T10:54:26-08:00August 23rd, 2016|Change Initiatives, Customer Development, Design of Experiments, Rules of Thumb, skmurphy|3 Comments

Things I Have Learned From My Children

Things I have learned from my children: “fall down seven times, stand up eight”, athletic ability flows from practice, and patience. […]

By Sean Murphy|2019-05-06T16:22:59-08:00July 27th, 2014|Change Initiatives, Design of Experiments, skmurphy|8 Comments

Enterprise Change Agents Need to Add Process Mining to Their Bag of Tricks

Today many change initiatives (and new software sales almost always involve the key elements of a change initiative) rely on interviews and replicating the results from an existing “manual system.” Processes mining tools and techniques will play an important role here. […]