by Durward K. Sobek II | Jan 15, 2021 | Exchange, Improvement Success, Knowledge, Lean Product Development
A Covid-19 vaccine has sped to public distribution in record time, four times faster than the fastest vaccine development to-date. How did it happen? Not without the efforts of thousands of researchers, engineers, technologists, factory workers, delivery drivers, and...
by Sannah Vinding | Dec 27, 2020 | Exchange, Improvement Success, Lean Product Development
I wanted to reach out at this holiday time to say thank you for being a learner and a supporter of the LPPDE community. Looking back at 2020 it was a rough and challenging year for everyone and it’s a year we will never forget – this is the year we faced the...
by Suzanne van Egmond | Nov 3, 2020 | Improvement Success, Lean Product Development
Tips for virtual lean workshops Product development highly depends on people working together. Breaking down silos in development projects is one of the first improvements to do when it’s not working: making sure everyone can see the whole – and how their own bit...
by Peter Palmer & Göran Gufstafsson | Oct 28, 2020 | Exchange, Improvement Success, Knowledge, Lean Product Development
The Bridgestone World Solar Challenge (https://www.worldsolarchallenge.org/) is an Australian race for solar powered vehicles which has been run for over 30 years. From the premiere in 1987, 15 races have been run, the latest in October 2019. The distance is 3000 km,...
by Carolyn Carter | Aug 31, 2020 | Improvement Success, Lean Product Development
When I was developing a presentation for the LPPDE conference last fall, I was wondering what metric to use to tie to speed of Development? I’ve always struggled with the goal of development… even after years in Lean and LPPD! Yeah, because it’s Innovation, that...
by Göran Gufstafsson | Jul 29, 2020 | Improvement Success, Knowledge, Lean Product Development
Lean Product Development stresses the importance of exploring the whole solution space, i.e., to become aware of every possible solution to our problem so that we can thoroughly investigate and compare them all. Using creative as well as systematic techniques, we can...
