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Workplace Culture: Productive People Make High-performing Teams That Produce Rapid Results

Innovation Excellence

How do you define the culture of your workplace? A positive, engaging workplace culture can attract and retain talented employees, increase productivity, and even improve financial performance. Workplace culture can change rapidly with world events, and play an important role in how employees respond to and operate in times of crisis.

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The Secret Ingredient to Operational Excellence Success

Qmarkets

In his 2011 book, Design for Operational Excellence, Kevin J. Duggan outlines a much more modern approach: Design lean value streams from the time the order is received until delivery to the customer. Make lean value streams flow from one process to the other. Drive lean & agile processes through digital transformation.

LEAN 49
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What Marie Kondo taught me about agile project management

mjvinnovation

The most notably is her 2011 bestselling The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing. The KONMARI method has premises that closely resemble lean thinking and agile mindset. The principles of Agile software development are on how to cultivate an agile mindset.

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The Secret Ingredient to Operational Excellence Success

Qmarkets

In his 2011 book, Design for Operational Excellence, Kevin J. Duggan outlines a much more modern approach: Design lean value streams from the time the order is received until delivery to the customer. Make lean value streams flow from one process to the other. Drive lean & agile processes through digital transformation.

LEAN 40
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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Are lean innovation and the Startup Way a failure in large companies?

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Take Smarter Risks through Discovery Driven Planning

KindlingApp

This is why the principles found in lean methodology have been so widely accepted and applied; the ability to be agile and adjust are the characteristics of top-tier organizations. There’s an old saying many may be familiar with: "haste makes waste" (we really do become our parents…). DDP vs. Stage-Gate.