Where lean product development experts and practitioners share their stories
Building Brilliance: Organizational Learning through Set-Based Concurrent Engineering
Creating and applying new knowledge is the crux of innovation. Since knowledge creation and application require a great deal of learning, it’s no surprise that many leaders in innovation aspire to make their companies “learning organizations.”
Where Do Most Visual Management Implementations Stop Today?
For the practitioners of Visual Management (VM), we would like to initiate a dialogue on potential opportunities to what we believe would further VM and reflect with you on the challenges around implementation. This speaks to shifting performance from better program...
Supercharging Innovation Culture through Visual Management
I have been engaged with Lean Product and Process Development (LPPD) for almost two decades, and the principle I think most imperative to embrace is Visual Management. I am a visual learner (about 65% of us are!) and my experience has taught me that visuals promote...
Agile or Lean – Which is Better?
Product development can be a complex and challenging process, with many different methodologies and frameworks used as a guide. While there is some overlap between these different approaches, each has its own unique characteristics and strengths.
Seeking Lean Development Learners
John Dewey, one of the most influential educational philosophers of the 20th century, emphasized the importance of learning through experience and reflection. He believed that learning should not be a one-way transmission of knowledge, but rather a collaborative process of shared discovery.
Why implementing lean sometimes is so hard
We will talk about one of the most common mistakes in implementing Lean is that we take the copy paste approach where the methodology is taken out of its context and applied in a different one. When what we should be doing is making sure we understand the problem we are trying to fix, the principles behind the method that can help us to solve the problem and then adapt the method so that it fits into the environment where we are trying to apply it.