by Suzanne van Egmond | Apr 15, 2016 | Lean Product Development
Why leadership and team behaviors are essential to achieve excellence Many organizations seek to improve performance in a sustainable way. R&D departments are no different. Lean offers a holistic approach to improve: holistic, because it does not only contain...
by Suzanne van Egmond | Apr 8, 2016 | Lean Product Development
Innovation is investing in new ideas, and that comes with a risk as new ideas always require knowledge gaps to be filled and it is never certain if this will be successful. Many companies have something like “achieving innovation excellence” in their mission; but what...
by Suzanne van Egmond | Apr 5, 2016 | Knowledge, Lean Product Development
Knowledge plays a central role in innovation and product development. Similarly, when implementing lean in product development, one needs to pay significant attention to knowledge. As this requires a radically different way of approaching especially the front end of...
by Suzanne van Egmond | Apr 3, 2016 | Lean Product Development
When a company wants to innovate, it needs to address both the efficiency as well as the effectiveness of the innovation process: efficiency, because we do not want to spend time and effort on aspects that do not add any value and focus on the value adding part of the...
by Suzanne van Egmond | Mar 23, 2016 | Lean Product Development, What is Lean Product Development?
Many people indeed use the two terms “lean innovation” and “lean product development” as if they are the same thing. In fact, when you look at how they define the terms, they are the same thing – the use of innovation may be part of the company culture, for example...
