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What is Lean Process Management and How is it Applied?

Kainexus

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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How to Sell Lean Software to Your CEO

Kainexus

You know that Lean software would help your organization implement more opportunities for improvement, eliminate waste, sustain improvement, and get more people involved in positive change. Investing in technology to support Lean is a big step, and it isn’t free, so a bit of reluctance is natural.

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Using Lean Innovation to Transform the Way the City of Hayward Solves Problems

Moves the Needle

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. Download this case study to show to your colleagues, board of directors, or boss.

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Using Lean Innovation in the Product Development and Commercialization Process

Moves the Needle

Lean Innovation doesn’t begin and end with product development. The most mature organizations deploy integrated lean innovation practices across the product lifecycle. Generally, the process begins by documenting what one believes to be true. But how can an enterprise organization re-invent product commercialization?

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Remembering and Honoring Norman Bodek

Kainexus

I join many in the Lean community in mourning the recent passing of a publisher, author, educator, and life-long learner, Norman Bodek. I was fortunate to get a lot of time with Norman over the past 15 years, as I documented in my LeanBlog.org post. You can read his obituary here.

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The Right Way to Do Lean Research

Boxes and Arrows

Each panelist had made their mark on how design is done in start-ups: Laura wrote the influential O’Reilly book on UX for Lean Startups, and Todd penned the bestselling Rosenfeld Media Prototyping book. Mike founded an influential Lean UX community in San Francisco. . Below is Laura Klein expounds on these key themes of lean research.

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9 Ways to Get Ideas Brewing with Instant Coffee

Planview

Here are some of the many ways you can use Instant Coffee: Brainstorming Incremental Planning Story Mapping Lean Coffee Impromptu Meetings PI Planning Retrospectives SWOT Analysis Standup Meetings. Instant Coffee provides the perfect blank canvas for documenting and facilitating your next brainstorming session. Lean Coffee.