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Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good

Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good

by Ann Mei Chang

$7.95

Lean Impact is a hands-on guide designed to exponentially increase the impact of our time and money. At the heart of the model is the scientific method that relies on hypothesis-driven experiments to reduce risk and increase the pace of learning. Chang’s approach accepts the reality that no solution is likely to be designed perfectly at the outset, thus the ability to rapidly adapt is essential. Lean Impact offers practical tools and strategies that are inspired by the customer-centered, fast iteration, and data-driven approaches popularized by The New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup.

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  • Lean Impact is a hands-on guide designed to exponentially increase the impact of our time and money.
  • At the heart of the model is the scientific method that relies on experiments to reduce risk and increase the pace of learning.
  • Chang’s approach accepts the reality that no solution is likely to be designed perfectly at the outset, thus the ability to rapidly adapt is essential.
  • Lean Impact offers practical strategies inspired by the customer-centered, fast iteration, and data-driven approaches popularized by The New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup.

About the Author

Ann Mei Chang  is the Executive Director of Lean Impact at Lean Startup Company. Previously, she served at USAID (one of the largest funders of international development) as Chief Innovation Officer and the Executive Director of the U.S. Global Development Lab. Prior to her pivot to social good, Ann Mei was a seasoned Silicon Valley executive, with more than twenty years’ experience at such leading companies as Google, Apple, and Intuit, as well as a number of startups. Learn more at leanimpact.org.

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