Minimum Viable Solution (MVS)

A Minimum Viable Solution (MVS), is the minimum you can invest to reveal and demonstrate what a solution is and is capable of. As Ash Maurya wrote in Scaling Lean, “[a]n MV[S] is the smallest solution that creates and captures monetizable value from [customers].”...

Models

Definitions Models are “a complex set of interrelated hypotheses.”Natural Experiments of History, P21, Jared Diamond All models are wrong, but some are useful.George Box, 1978. Discussion Regarding models being wrong, what is meant is that every model is...

Pivot

Pivot – a change in strategy without a change in vision.The Startup Way, Eric Ries. To pivot is to turn about an axis, and is a term used in business model development to suggest a change in direction, as in, if something doesn’t work, try something else. For...

Positioning and Repositioning

Positioning is how you differentiate yourself in the mind of your prospect. It’s also a body of work on how the mind works in the process of communication. Repositioning is how you adjust perceptions, whether those perceptions are about you or about your competition....

Product

Tangible results such as things made for you.In addition, where some authors use the term product, I have chosen to use the term solution.Please also refer to service.