by Bob Stavig | Jul 17, 2022 | Lean Product Development
Measure twice, cut once. It is this adage that can help us learn through the development process towards maximizing the value delivered with a product or service. However, when our efforts do not turn out the way we expect we have the opportunity to develop the...
by Geoff Neiley | Jun 21, 2022 | Lean Product Development
A few years ago, at LPPDE NA, I sat at a discussion table with Jim Morgan. The subject at this table was the Chief Engineering role in an organization. He shared that as a chief engineer at Ford he wanted to build “Towering Technical Competency” in the engineering...
by Peter Palmer | Jun 6, 2022 | Lean Product Development
As usual the journey from idea to final conference is a long one, this time much longer though. That is if we talk about the physical, in-person, conference. The first plan to have an in-person conference in Helsinki was for May 2020 where we postponed the conference...
by Peter Palmer | May 23, 2022 | Lean Product Development
Innovation has many names. Does innovation have to be some big ground-breaking invention or could it be small, everyday improvements? And how would you trigger it? In other words; Innovation has many aspects. I have been taught that innovation means creating something...
by Arnoud Herremans | May 9, 2022 | Lean Product Development
Many organizations aspire to become a learning organization. Continuous improvement and learning from our mistakes often is their credo. In such an organization you may observe the following scene. Picture a quality laboratory, testing the quality of a pharmaceutical...
by Christer Lundh | Mar 31, 2022 | Lean Product Development
In business, time to market (TTM), is very important. Late product launches and slow TTM negatively impact revenues, risk the erosion of the addressable market, reducing opportunities and causing products to become obsolete faster. That’s why, the speed and pace of...
