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Trevor Owens    

CEO and Founder of Lean Startup Machine and Javelin and Author, "The Lean Enterprise: How Corporations Can Innovate Like Startups"

Trevor Owens is an author and entrepreneur. He’s the CEO and founder of Lean Startup Machine and Javelin. Owens has helped tens of thousands of startup founders and individuals from organizations including Google, Salesforce, News Corp, Intuit and others, start new businesses around the world.

In his recently published book, "The Lean Enterprise" (Wiley 2014), Owens and co-author Obie Fernandez detail approaches for corporations to structure innovation teams and apply Lean Startup to launching new products. Owens’ work has been featured in national media outlets, including Forbes, Bloomberg, Fast Company, Business Insider, Mashable and others.

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The Lean Enterprise: Innovation Strategy and Structure for the Enterprise Context

How can big companies capitalize on the startup movement happening right outside their doors? In order to harness disruptive innovation, large organizations need to understand the rules of disruption and completely rethink how they motivate and compensate employees. Most innovation talks focus on processes for incremental innovations—not this one. Learn the specific techniques, timetables and financial investments required to innovate disruptively within an enterprise context.

Starting Lean: How to Find Out If Your Business Idea Has Potential in Days and Not Years

Startups are not small versions of big companies. Yet for the last 30 years, we have tried to apply the management practices used in big companies to the process of developing new products and services. Finally today, we have a new form of management. Learn the principles of the Lean process from the author of The Lean Enterprise and creator of the international phenomenon, Lean Startup Machine.

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