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Lean Continuous Improvement: Increase Productivity in 2023

Kainexus

The uncertain economy and difficult labor market are forcing leaders to think creatively about increasing productivity this year. Fortunately, Lean business process management is ideally suited for this challenge. Lean organizations constantly work toward optimizing every process for maximum results.

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Design Thinking, Lean Startup, Agile? There is a Bigger Thing Happening

Leanstack

In this post, Alejandra shares her perspectives on when and how to incorporate lean, agile, and design thinking into your product lifecycle. I have been applying design-led strategies that combine agile and lean for almost 10 years, and while they work, they needed to provide more solid evidence for decision making.

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Announcing Momentum Creative Problem Solving (MCPS)

Gregg Fraley

A highly creative new method for solving difficult problems. Accelerate the Momentum of Work and Life Projects With Focused Creativity. Three Oaks, Michigan, Wednesday April 21st, an announcement on International Creativity and Innovation Day. More focused creativity means more Momentum. Everybody is creative.

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Inspire Creativity in Your Team through Active Listening

IdeaScale

Even if they’re not looking at you directly, you can show engagement with “open” body language such as sitting up and leaning forward. The post Inspire Creativity in Your Team through Active Listening appeared first on IdeaScale. If somebody’s uncomfortable with eye contact, don’t make them do it.

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Cultivating A DEI Garden Where Seeds of Innovation Grow into Creative Breakthroughs

Many studies around innovation lean into the technical and process side of the equation but barely explore the cultural aspect — a sustainable foundation of innovation.

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Lean is Dead. Long Live Lean!

Legacy Innovation Group

Lean is Dead. Long Live Lean! Twenty four years ago, James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos introduced our world to a modern understanding of the concept of Lean Production. Lean Production was, and still is, a profoundly powerful management philosophy for the mass production of uniform goods.

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Episode 085: The Path of Most Resistance to Creative Thinking

Innovation in Practice

In other words, we lean into taking avenues familiar to us. However, most creative ideas come from following the path of most resistance, not the least resistance. This is why we need to push our brains a little bit further if we want to boost our creativity. Matching two unrelated things together to create the most resistance.