173 articles by Tristan Kromer What Is an AI Innovation Strategy? Mar 9, 2026
AI Will Change How You Innovate—Here’s What You Need to Know Jan 14, 2025
Hope Amidst Disruption - Get Ready for 2025! Dec 18, 2024
Springing into Action: Unveiling Our Dynamic Plans and Offerings! Apr 2, 2024
New Pivot or Persevere Videos and Template Feb 27, 2024
Introducing Our New Calibration Training Tool for Business Estimation Jan 31, 2024
2024 Innov8rs Handbook Jan 10, 2024
The Failure of Innovation Training Dec 27, 2023
Mastering Innovation: A Flashcards Quiz for Startup Success Nov 7, 2023
Statistics for Product Managers: Tools and Techniques for Innovation Oct 11, 2023
Real Startup Book: A Fresh Look and Exciting Updates for Entrepreneurs Oct 3, 2023
Four Must-Haves in Your Innovation Process Sep 13, 2023
Unlocking the Power of Data: Introducing Our Experiment Calculator Sep 5, 2023
Unveiling the Enhanced Plinkromatic: Mastering Innovation Management in a New Light! Aug 22, 2023
Can You Use a Net Present Value Formula for Innovation Projects? Aug 16, 2023
Make Strategic Decisions Based on Evidence Jul 25, 2023
Mastering the Art of Portfolio Management: Guiding Your Ant Colony to Success Jul 19, 2023
Why Speed Beats Perfection in Product Experimentation Jul 5, 2023
Is Your Innovation Team Contributing to ROI? Jun 14, 2023
Advice to Innovation Boards: How to Show Up May 30, 2023
Investing in Innovation: The Weight of Experience Apr 27, 2023
Governance and Portfolio Management in 2023 Mar 15, 2023
Using a Monte Carlo Simulation to Forecast Innovation Outcomes Feb 8, 2023
Powerful Tools Unveiled: Enhance Your Innovation Projects with Kromatic's Latest Updates Jan 31, 2023
Innovation in 2023 Dec 14, 2022
Empowering Startups: Free Templates, Resources, and Training for Innovation Success Dec 2, 2022
The Art of Guesstimation Oct 12, 2022
Boost Your Innovation Process with Kromatic's Free Templates and Running Better Experiments Program Sep 14, 2022
How to Make “Pivot or Persevere” Decisions in Your Innovation Accounting Jun 1, 2022
Innovation Accounting in Practice Mar 30, 2022
Adaptive Strategy Mar 16, 2022
Advice to Innovation Boards: Make Frequent, Fast Decisions Nov 29, 2021
How Learning and Development Can Create a Culture of Innovation Nov 8, 2021
The Most Common Error in Business Forecasting Oct 19, 2021
Advice to Innovation Boards: Don’t Make Decisions Sep 20, 2021
Do You Need an Innovation Strategy? Jul 19, 2021
The Danger of Corporate Growth Metrics Jun 28, 2021
Getting Perspective on Your Business Model Innovation Jun 14, 2021
Data Mining: How to Focus Your Analytics Jun 1, 2021
Digital Transformation vs. Exponential Transformation May 3, 2021
Engines of Growth: What Is a Retention Rate? Apr 13, 2021
Strategy Is a Verb Apr 6, 2021
Advice to an Innovation Board: Agree to Disagree Mar 30, 2021
Early Decisions Are Better Than Later Mar 23, 2021
Hacking Procrastination Mar 16, 2021
Calculating the Value of Your Innovation Team Mar 9, 2021
Lean Startup Certification Mar 2, 2021
What Is Innovation Accounting? Feb 24, 2021
Where Corporate Strategy Meets Innovation Strategy Feb 17, 2021
Innovation Strategy: Where to Explore, When to Launch, and How to Hack Feb 9, 2021
The Trials and Unexpected Benefits of Screwing Up Feb 3, 2021
How to Win at Startup Poker Jan 26, 2021
Measuring Innovation Boards Jan 19, 2021
The Hidden Investor in Corporate Growth Boards Dec 8, 2020
How to Calculate Opportunity Cost of Innovation Nov 24, 2020
Levels of Innovation Metrics Nov 17, 2020
Innovation, Climate Change, and the Economy Oct 27, 2020
Completing a 2x2 Risk Prioritization Matrix Oct 20, 2020
Customer Validation under Lockdown Sep 29, 2020
Why Are You Starting Your Innovation Program from Scratch? Aug 11, 2020
Fear the Zebra Jul 28, 2020
Applying Innovation Metrics and Objectives by Department Jul 21, 2020
Rules of Thumb for Quantitative Experiments Jul 15, 2020
Innovation Ecosystem Design Using Liebig’s Law of the Minimum Jun 3, 2020
What Is an Innovation Ecosystem? Apr 14, 2020
Corporate Innovation Labs: A Case Study on DHL’s Startup Lab Jan 7, 2020
Learning Culture Part II: How to Get the Best Out of Everyone Oct 16, 2019
Paper Prototyping: How TenTune Harnessed the Power of the Pencil Aug 13, 2019
Innovation Metrics - What Should Innovation Programs Measure? Jul 23, 2019
Innovation Portfolio Management - Principles Before Tools Jul 9, 2019
Our New Lean Template (and Why You Shouldn't Use It) Jun 25, 2019
Sprint Retrospective Ideas - Go with the Power of Retrospectives Jun 11, 2019
Fear and the Innovation Sandbox, Part 1 Jun 4, 2019
Elmo Acronym - The Majesty of Elmo May 28, 2019
How Asking Works: A Crash Course in Customer Discovery Questions May 21, 2019
What a Journalist Can Teach Lean Startups about Customer Interviews May 14, 2019
User Interview Questions - How a Focus On Storytelling Can Solve OUR Pain Points May 7, 2019
Customer Discovery Interviews Part 1: Focus on Storytelling Apr 30, 2019
Intent-Based Leadership - UnLearning to Lead Apr 4, 2019
How Do I Know When I’m Done with Customer Discovery Process? Mar 13, 2019
S.I.M.P.L.E. before S.M.A.R.T. - A Guide to Smart Business Experiments Feb 11, 2019
Guest Post: Market Opportunity Navigator by Sharon Tal-Itzkovitch Oct 16, 2018
Strategy of Innovation vs. Innovation Strategy May 22, 2018
33 Steps for Corporate Innovation...you won’t believe what happens next! Apr 1, 2018
Reverse Mentoring: What Millennials Can Teach Executives and Managers Mar 20, 2018
Building on the Grit and Growth Mindset Feb 20, 2018
Organizational Culture Case Study: Lean Experiments with Radical Candor Feb 5, 2018
B2B Startup Sales: A Lean Approach Jan 29, 2018
Innovation Metric - In Defense of Experiment Velocity Jan 22, 2018
Ten Monster Projects That Will Kill Your Career As an Intrapreneur Dec 11, 2017
Guest Post: Want to know Corporate Innovation definition? Avoid These Three Pitfalls Oct 9, 2017
How Diversity Can Drive Innovation? - Innovation & Ecosystem Aug 29, 2017
Why Meritocracy Doesn’t Work Aug 7, 2017
Measuring Innovation | Iteration Time = Time to Learn, Not Time to Build Jul 24, 2017
Importance = Business Impact * Uncertainty Nov 30, 2016
Landing Page Testing - 6 Reasons Your Conversion Rate is Zero Nov 23, 2016
How Many Customer Interviews are Enough to Verify Your Assumptions Nov 16, 2015
Concierge vs. Wizard of Oz Prototyping Sep 15, 2015
Value Creation - In a World with No Technology Or Data... Aug 31, 2015
The Real Startup Book Update Aug 18, 2015
The ROI of Innovation - What Is it? Aug 4, 2015
Entrepreneurship Degree: Ask the Right Questions Jul 27, 2015
One Lean Startup Experiment Per Week Jul 21, 2015
In Defense of the Hi.P.P.O Jul 14, 2015
The Complete Team Jul 7, 2015
Lean Startup Jobs - Interns Needed! Jul 2, 2015
Actionable Metrics vs. Fail Condition - To the Pain! Jun 30, 2015
Assumption vs. Hypothesis - to the Death! Jun 23, 2015
Generative Research: Picnic in the Graveyard Apr 14, 2015
Comprehension vs. Commitment Apr 8, 2015
Innovation Workshop Facilitation: Cheat Sheet Feb 24, 2015
Untangling B2B Sales Goals and Objectives - Lean Sales Start with Goals Jan 21, 2015
Innovation Methods: What Type of Lean Startup Experiment Should I Run? Sep 30, 2014
The Future of Lean Product Development and UX Sep 23, 2014
Templates Suck, Here's Our Lean Startup Template Sep 16, 2014
Startup Culture - Interview with Kevin Dewalt Sep 2, 2014
Observer-Expectancy Effect - Customer Development & UX Jul 23, 2014
The Ultimate Guide to Running a Lean Startup Jun 24, 2014
Straw Man Lean Enterprise Book Jun 19, 2014
Lean Enterprise & Innovation Ecosystems Jun 17, 2014
Earlyvangelist Criteria Applies to Customers and Users - Product/Market Fit May 6, 2014
Customers and Causality - Customer Analysis Apr 29, 2014
How to Build a Minimum Viable Product Apr 15, 2014
False Positives and Product / Market Fit Survey - How Do We Test for It? Apr 8, 2014
Agile Transformation - Adopting the Lean Hype Cycle Mar 25, 2014
The Rudder Fallacy - Adopting Lean Startup Principles Mar 18, 2014
Lean Enterprise Anti-Pattern: Why agile doesn't work Oct 24, 2013
The One Minute Retrospective Oct 15, 2013
Living Lean Startup Oct 2, 2013
Business Model Canvas for Puppies (part II) Aug 7, 2012
12 Random Tips For Practicing Customer Development Jul 17, 2012
Triangulating User Experience with Lean Startup Tools Jul 10, 2012
Business Model Canvas Example (for Puppies) - Part I Jul 3, 2012
Product Development Life Cycle - The Risk of Building the Wrong Stuff Jun 26, 2012
Business Model Canvas for User Experience Jun 19, 2012
Business Model Canvas Iteration, and Marshmallows Jun 12, 2012
What is User Experience? Jun 5, 2012
Cheat Sheet: Business Model Canvas May 15, 2012
Ability to Learn Quickly - Iteration May 15, 2012
Minimum Viable Product Template - Cheat Sheet May 15, 2012
Cheat Sheet: Pivot Business May 15, 2012
Finding And Solving Customer Pains - Problems Don't Exist Mar 20, 2012
Lean Startup Machine - 10 Most Effective Tips and Tricks Mar 6, 2012
Build Measure Learn vs. Learn Measure Build Feb 23, 2012
Minimum Viable Experience: User Experience is Not a Feature Feb 7, 2012
Lean Startup vs. Visionary Entrepreneur Nov 17, 2011
Taxonomy of the Lean Startup Anti-Pivot Oct 24, 2011
Minimum Viable Founding Team > Minimum Viable Product Oct 11, 2011
Pivoting on Investor Feedback a.k.a Beware of Startup Mentor Oct 4, 2011
Innovation Culture: "Who Gets Shot" Sep 22, 2011
Top 3 Ways to Fail at Customer Development Sep 15, 2011
The 3 Best Usability Testing Tools for Mockups and Wireframes Jul 21, 2011
Customer Personas for Customer Development Jul 13, 2011
Iconic Innovation | Humanity's Greatest Innovation Jun 29, 2011
13 Tactics and Tips for Running Meetings - Growth Board May 31, 2011
Three Lean Transformation to Live By May 3, 2011
Market Validation - How do you validate your startup idea with customers? Mar 7, 2011
Why is Cyber Squatter a Bad Word? Value Creation In Entrepreneurship Jan 27, 2011
Startup Weekend Lesson Learned #2 – Steve Blank get out of the Building Aug 5, 2010
Reverse Customer Development a.k.a. Thank God for Earlyvangelist Jun 24, 2010
$3.95? We're Rich! - Learn to Test Business Model First Jun 1, 2010
Two Sided Marketplace-Customer Development with Network Effects May 11, 2010
Top Takeaway - Startup Lessons Learned for Team Alignment May 6, 2010
Wizard of Oz Prototype Example to Improve The User Experience May 4, 2010
The Taxonomy of the Lean Startup Pivot Apr 13, 2010
Customer Development: Fight or Flight Apr 6, 2010
How to Create a Prototype - Clever Hans and Photoshop Iteration Mar 30, 2010
How to Do Customer Discovery - Development Practice Mar 9, 2010
Evaluative Research Of Customer Development Mistakes Feb 23, 2010
Principles of Management - Controlled Burns and Firebreaks Feb 16, 2010
Innovation Investment - Bad Economies are Great for Business Feb 9, 2010
Someone Please Write a Blog about Minimum Viable Strategic Options Jan 26, 2010
Startup Team Building - Right Team / Right Market Dec 28, 2009
