Where lean product development experts and practitioners share their stories
Leadership Workshop with MobAI
Joe Justice’s insights into how Elon Musk’s companies operate and their innovative use of AI have inspired organizations across industries. Motivated by his posts, we introduced MobAI to a client organization in the automotive industry to tackle a real and complex...
Redesigning Your Operating Model Using the 5W1H Method!
Rudyard Kipling’s six honest serving men — What, Why, When, How, Where, and Who — laid the foundation for the 5W1H method, a powerful framework for problem-solving and decision-making. When applied to organizational transformation, particularly in redesigning an...
Entrepreneur System-Designer Leadership: Leading Like a Tinkerer, not a Bureaucrat
Let’s face it—traditional leadership models in product development are about as useful as a GPS with no signal. If you’ve ever been caught in the endless loop of command-and-control project management, you know the drill: countless status meetings, action registers...
How can a Lean transformation dramatically improve your game plan and abilities?
Much is said and written about Lean and Agile transformations, yet many company transformations suffer from low effectiveness and are burdened by bureaucracy. So how do transformational leaders set out a game plan to succeed? And how do leaders actually create a...
Why Transforming Innovation for Enterprise Excellence?
This year the Lean Product and Process Development Exchange chose a Transformation based theme for our US Conference. Transformation is an enabler for organizations to evolve products and competitive edge to grow markets and revenue. Much of what we see today is...
My Story: Part 1
A story of transitioning from a slow, dilapidated, development environment to a lean innovation engine. I joined the company as a manager in the mechanical engineering department in 2011. We had a waterfall product development system. I recall one project that had...