The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses · chapter 12 · id the-lean-startup-c12-05-intuit-is-a-model-of-continuou
“Intuit is a model of continuous innovation within a large company, demonstrating that established firms can systematically adopt lean startup practices to maintain entrepreneurial energy.”
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Intuit press room -- innovation historypaywalled — manual check queued
Intuit's innovation culture under Scott Cook was established in the 1990s, drawing from Deming and Toyota principles, well before the lean startup movement.
Camuffo et al. (2020), Scientific Entrepreneurship RCTDOI registry: valid
The only RCT of lean-style methodology found faster failure, not better innovation outcomes. No study has tested whether lean practices specifically improve enterprise innovation.
Satell (2020), The Innovation Blind Spot, HBRFLAGGED: dead link (404)
Intuit's success is attributed to culture and leadership (Scott Cook's experimental mindset), not to adoption of any specific methodology. The lean startup framework was applied retroactively to explain what Intuit already did.
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