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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...
How to identify waste in the product development process?
Lean experts will tell you that, when you want to be lean, it is important to remove waste. Waste is anything the customer is not willing to pay for. For example; when you manufacture paperclips, the value creation is in the cutting, bending, packing of the...