Cris Beswick

AUGUST 12, 2020

Playing Lean Expert Webinar – Does culture really eat strategy for breakfast? Recognised globally as a thought leader on innovation strategy, leadership and culture, he’s helped some of the world’s most ambitious CEOs, companies and … Continued. And other musings with Cris Beswick. appeared first on Cris Beswick.

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Kainexus

JUNE 28, 2022

The Lean approach to business management started when Toyota decided to retool its manufacturing practices to improve efficiency and quality simultaneously. However, not all Lean initiatives are successful. That's why software designed to enhance Lean efforts is so critical.

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ITONICS

APRIL 11, 2024

Scan the covers of best-selling books on innovation, and many of them focus on culture as a major driver of innovation success. Concepts of lean and agile. Startup and experimentation mindsets. Advice to fail fast and fail forward.

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Kainexus

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Lean management is a systematic approach to eliminating waste and optimizing processes to maximize efficiency, improve quality, and enhance customer value. It originated in manufacturing but has since been applied to various industries and sectors.

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Kainexus

AUGUST 4, 2022

Leaders are hungry for ways to transform their organization's culture and results. This post looks into one question we get a lot, "Should we adopt the continuous improvement model or Lean Six Sigma?". The answer will become clear if we dig deeper into what each means.

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Kainexus

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Lean Six Sigma is a robust methodology that combines two distinct but complementary approaches: "Lean" and "Six Sigma." This post will explore and explain the most widely used Lean Six Sigma process tools for effective process improvement.

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Values Centered Innovation

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Jolt #28: Lean into myths, not just methods. But what if a myth actually points us towards a deeper truth and wisdom about us as human beings and our cultural ideals? The study of myth is thus of central importance in the study both of individual societies and of human culture as a whole.

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Kainexus

JANUARY 6, 2022

Lean process management is a method for building a company culture that supports continuous improvement. The primary objective of Lean process improvement is to create value for the customer by optimizing resources and creating an uninterrupted workflow based on near real-time customer demands.

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Leanstack

APRIL 26, 2021

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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Kainexus

AUGUST 11, 2023

In a recent episode of The Lean Effect Podcast , Mark De Jong sat down with our very own Matt Banna, Enterprise Account Executive at KaiNexus, to delve into the world of employee engagement, executive buy-in, and process improvement. Here are some highlights from the episode:

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Kainexus

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

When leading a Lean transformation , a consultant’s most important job is to help plant and grow a culture of continuous improvement in an organization. An improvement culture cannot be created with a “drop and grow” approach; it needs careful maintenance to grow strong. Once a plant starts growing, it can't be abandoned.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

That’s because they try to apply processes and structures that don’t fit their business strategies and cultures. They force crowdsourcing into their top-down decision-making cultures. Mix and match models to fit your unique culture. The post Organize innovation to fit your strategy & culture. first appeared on.

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Kainexus

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

A graceful introduction of your Lean culture can make all the difference. The same is true for your new hires. The employee’s level of engagement over the long term can be impacted by how they are welcomed to the team.

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Kainexus

APRIL 22, 2021

We spend a lot of time and effort on this blog digging into the details of how to start, spread, and sustain a Lean culture. We think it is important to get very specific about the Lean tools and techniques that produce measurable results for healthcare organizations. and Leonard L.

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Kainexus

OCTOBER 14, 2020

We owe a lot to those who pioneered Lean management and other methodologies that bake quality improvement into daily business processes. In short, without a culture that supports improvement , success is unlikely. Here are four signs that a culture isn't conducive to improvement.

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Qmarkets

JULY 31, 2023

Together, we will help businesses across Asia implement continuous improvement processes and nurture an innovation culture to drive efficiencies, build resilience and unlock growth potential. With a network of experienced and reliable partners and specialists, it believes in LEAN, AGILE, and PRAGMATIC strategies.

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Collectivecamp

APRIL 13, 2020

In my most recent podcast interview with Steve Blank, credited with developing the customer development methodology which birthed the lean startup, we touched on the topic of how the corporate culture inhibits innovation.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 8, 2020

In this post I'm going to be writing about two very interconnected issues - organizational culture and the bias for, or against, innovation. Definition of Culture I won't spend a lot of time on the definition of culture, but it is worth describing what culture "is" in this context and why it matters.

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

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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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Lean’ is the buzzword of the last decade, challenging old school thinking that dictates that a successful business must be resource-heavy to achieve sustainable growth, whilst also giving credence to those who want to launch “almost-there” app startups today to achieve market domination tomorrow. Pros for a lean app startup.

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Kainexus

JULY 29, 2019

What an apt description of the role of middle managers in a Lean environment. When we talk about the Lean business management approach or just continuous improvement in general, we often say that it involves everyone from the CEO to front line workers.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 19, 2021

Guest Post from Nicolas Bry Innovation organization doesn’t thrive without innovation culture: organization and process without culture are like a factory without raw materials; culture without organization and process is appropriate to initiate a handful of innovation projects, but doesn’t … Continue reading →

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Rapid Innovation in digital time

AUGUST 25, 2021

The Lean Startup was published by Eric Ries 10 years ago in 2011. How did it fare across time? In my opinion, it hasn't aged a bit. It's still utterly accurate, so clear-cut phrased, as illustrated by selected punchlines from the book.

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Rapid Innovation in digital time

AUGUST 16, 2021

Innovation organization doesn't thrive without innovation culture: organization without culture is like a factory without raw materials; culture without organization doesn’t scale.

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Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Before and After Lean Innovation: Overview The City of Hayward, California wanted to break away from inefficient and ineffective processes for researching and launching programs, and remove organizational bottlenecks that stood in the way of serving citizens. Related Resource: Creating an Entrepreneurial Culture in the Public Sector.

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Kainexus

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Building a culture of continuous improvement is not a short-term project or a quick fix but a journey that never ends. Across the globe, healthcare leaders are working hard to implement the principles of continuous improvement in their organizations. It requires commitment, investment, and persistence.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. Your subtitle refers to “lean” principles; I’m assuming they respond to these restraining forces? Strategic Speed Constant Experimentation Accelerated Value Lean Process Esprit de Corps 6. But they are manageable.

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Viima

JULY 5, 2023

Our latest Innovation Room Podcast episode dives into the topic of a new business building inside established organizations and the culture that surrounds it all. I was lucky enough to have this conversation with none other than the expert on the topic himself – Frank Mattes.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. The most mature organizations deploy integrated lean innovation practices across the product lifecycle. What cultural characteristics effect marketing channels? But how can an enterprise organization re-invent product commercialization? The list goes on.

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Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Beside the annual ranking, headed by the top three companies Apple, Google and Samsung, some insightful outcomes with regard to organizational and cultural requirements have striked my eye. Adaptability and innovation culture. has found that adaptive corporate cultures are most effective in driving financial performance.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Last week we held an event to share best practices in the fields of digitalisation lean for large organizations. Knorr-Bremse built their processes based on Toyota lean. According to the German culture: plan, act, change. Process improvement opportunities are the gate-way for people to later discover more disruptive ideas.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

These speakers can also deepen the understanding of an innovation culture by: Illustrating how to create an environment that nurtures innovative thinking. They may also delve into methodologies like lean startup principles and agile development to illustrate how continuous testing can lead to successful outcomes.

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Business and Tech

APRIL 8, 2022

Company culture is also changing with the times, and has become the most effective way companies can attract—and retain—top talent. Gaining that competitive advantage involves addressing what Koslow calls the three “pillars” of a healthy company culture: community, purpose, and growth. A competitive advantage.

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Innovation Leader

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Can big companies behave like startups and capture their culture? To find out, we interviewed Steve Blank, a key player in the lean startup movement. This episode also features insights from Lyft COO Jon McNeill.

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Digital Tonto

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Businesses need to internalize new technologies like AI and adapt to new realities like hybrid work, but still struggle to adopt decades old skills related to lean manufacturing, agile development and cultural competency. If we are going to drive the transformations we need to compete, we need to take an evidence based approach.

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Kainexus

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Continuous improvement is an integral part of Japanese culture, which endeavors to improve on an ongoing basis. Kaizen is closely associated with lean manufacturing in the West because continuous improvement combined with just-in-time manufacturing principles form the foundation of lean.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Implementing the Lean Startup in any company is hard. All the culture and incentives are designed for execution. Now compound that level of effort with trying to put a Lean Startup culture in place in Japan. And weak leadership leads to a reluctance to change and the inability to mandate Lean as an innovation process.

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