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6 Principles of Lean Construction

Kainexus

A growing number of construction firms are embracing the Lean methodology that emphasizes maximizing value for the customer while minimizing waste. Lean construction borrows from the manufacturing approach developed by Toyota after World War II. Greater variation and workflow disruptions are to be expected.

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Recognizing the Building Blocks of Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Over the years, so much has improved and understood by the explanations, case examples, suggestions, clarifications and ways they were “built into” the individual innovation processes that each company chose to construct their innovation process. These tools and techniques enable ideation, validation, design-build and scaling.

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The Critically Important Innovation Narrative

Paul Hobcraft

Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers. Within this view by Day and Shea, they point out that managers are never short of advice.

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Customer, Culture, and Learning: Takeaways from the Lean Startup Conference

Moves the Needle

Anyone who has ever attended Lean Startup Conference (previously known as Lean Startup Week) in the past knows that this annual event regularly features invigorating speakers that divulge the newest insights and innovations in modern management for a wide array of industries and company types.

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New Innovation Books for 2021 & Beyond

InnovationTraining.org

Innovator’s DNA, Updated, with a New Preface: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. This book explores how companies like Amazon and Microsoft have been able to create immensely successful businesses that disrupt entire industries. Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation. Find it here.

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The Critically Important Innovation Narrative

Paul Hobcraft

Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers. The level of careful dissection of failures and cues from rapid prototyping, frugal experimentation, and lean methodologies was strong.

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The Critically Important Innovation Narrative

Paul Hobcraft

Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers. The level of careful dissection of failures and cues from rapid prototyping, frugal experimentation, and lean methodologies was strong.