Where lean product development experts and practitioners share their stories
The quest to achieve innovation excellence
Innovation is investing in new ideas, and that comes with a risk as new ideas always require knowledge gaps to be filled and it is never certain if this will be successful. Many companies have something like “achieving innovation excellence” in their mission; but what...
Implementing Lean Product Development requires a paradigm shift: learning first
Knowledge plays a central role in innovation and product development. Similarly, when implementing lean in product development, one needs to pay significant attention to knowledge. As this requires a radically different way of approaching especially the front end of...
Why lean product development implementations improve both efficiency and effectiveness
When a company wants to innovate, it needs to address both the efficiency as well as the effectiveness of the innovation process: efficiency, because we do not want to spend time and effort on aspects that do not add any value and focus on the value adding part of the...
Are “lean innovation” and “lean product development” the same?
Many people indeed use the two terms “lean innovation” and “lean product development” as if they are the same thing. In fact, when you look at how they define the terms, they are the same thing – the use of innovation may be part of the company culture, for example...
Why Lean product development implementations start with visual planning methods
When you would retrieve all conference agendas of previous LPPDE conferences, you would see a common denominator: visual planning methods. The reason is that many leanPD practitioners choose to first experiment with forms of visual planning for their development...
True LeanPD (Lean Product Development) should contain a second “P”
Why? When implementing lean in product development we should look at it from two angles. The first angle is the one that is mostly considered: we should develop products in a lean way, making the development process more efficient and effective. The second is often...