Where lean product development experts and practitioners share their stories
So, you want to Start a Lean Initiative on Product Development!
Congratulations - you certainly picked one of the most beneficial areas for lean thinking! But it is also one of the most challenging ones.But why do you want to apply lean to your R&D or innovation creation process? Typically the answers range from: "We are using...
Michael Kennedy: bringing Allen Ward into practice – two books and the third to come
Michael Kennedy, one of the most well-known names in Lean Product Development will give his first keynote at an LPPDE conference in Paris. This may come as a surprise considering how many of these events that he has attended over the years. He is soon to publish his...
The Importance of Structure in Innovation
In the early parts of this century, Lean, especially lean-sigma came under intense criticism: An article in the Forbes magazine (Norbert Majerus, Lean-Driven Innovation, CRC Press, 2015) documented results, mainly from 3M, which indicated that lean – or at least...
The Perfect Combination for Learning
I believe that learning, especially the learning needed to change your way of thinking, needs different approaches and that it takes time. You need to enter the learning loop well prepared, know your True North and break it down into problems to solve and small...
Do you say what you mean?
In product development it is not only crucial to really understand the problem to solve, that is, to find the root cause. It is equally important how to formulate the problem. What we say and write reflects our thinking. Conversely, our thinking is influenced by what...
Why do you add avoidable risk to your product development?
There are always nice-to-have features, new technology and breakthrough ideas in new product development. In fact, new products are usually littered with unnecessary and avoidable risk. One high profile example was an all new wide body, mostly carbon fiber, aircraft....