Where lean product development experts and practitioners share their stories
Probe-Sence-Respond: What Product Teams Can Learn from the Cynefine Framework
If the last five years have taught us anything, it’s that we live in a world of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. At our recent European Conference in Stockholm, Peter Palmer and Bengt Johansson spoke about the Cynefin (kuh-NEH-vin) Framework....
Innovation is Not Normal, and That’s its Superpower
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."— Albert Einstein — In the structured world of business processes, Innovation is strange. The common assumption is that innovation can be managed like a typical business process. Instead, I have...
Reflections on LPPDE EU 2025, Stockholm, Sweden
I recently returned from attending the Lean Product and Process Development Exchange (LPPDE) conference in Stockholm, Sweden. It was an excellent event with significant value for all attendees. I would like to reflect on three key takeaways from this event. For some,...
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...