by Penny Cloft | May 8, 2019 | Knowledge
Does your company have a continuous improvement strategy for your business and technical processes? Do you use metrics to encourage/measure the usage of lean tools like, K-Briefs, Value Stream Mapping, 5S, Gemba, Standard Work, Plan Do Check Act.The obvious next...
by Terry Barnhart | Sep 19, 2018 | Knowledge
Everybody talks about failing fast. Great stuff, but today, we talk about replacing “Fail fast” with something more valuable.Yes.Really.Fast learning.The idea of “Fail fast” is that many of our ideas will not work, therefore the faster we rip...
by lppdeadm | Jul 18, 2018 | Knowledge, Lean Product Development
One of the biggest challenges in applying Lean to Product Development is the ability to “see” waste. Manufacturing has traditionally led in Lean implementation, possibly because it is much easier to identify waste in manufacturing. Inventory can be seen. Wasted motion...
by Göran Gufstafsson | Mar 20, 2018 | Knowledge, Lean Product Development
Michael Kennedy, one of the most well-known names in Lean Product Development will give his first keynote at an LPPDE conference in Paris. This may come as a surprise considering how many of these events that he has attended over the years. He is soon to publish his...
by Peter Palmer | Sep 1, 2017 | Exchange, Knowledge
I believe that learning, especially the learning needed to change your way of thinking, needs different approaches and that it takes time. You need to enter the learning loop well prepared, know your True North and break it down into problems to solve and small...
by Göran Gufstafsson | Aug 25, 2017 | Knowledge
In product development it is not only crucial to really understand the problem to solve, that is, to find the root cause. It is equally important how to formulate the problem. What we say and write reflects our thinking. Conversely, our thinking is influenced by what...
