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...
by Geoff Neiley | Mar 7, 2022 | Lean Product Development
I heard it once said that “The value that engineering brings to an organization is the creation of useful knowledge.” I thought the value I brought was the new product I develop for the customer!? But where do those products come from? How do we make decisions about...
by Matt Albin | Feb 18, 2022 | Behaviors, Lean Product Development
After a 45-minute wait in the emergency room waiting area they moved us into an examination room. It was my brothers second trip to ER in the 24 hours since we learned that he had cancer. After completing their assessment they started pumping him with fluids to...
