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

APRIL 27, 2020

The eight wastes of Lean , for example, create friction and lower productivity for remote workers as much as they do on a factory floor. There are many practical and physiological challenges to this abrupt change, so give yourself a break if everything hasn’t been smooth sailing.

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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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Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Part Eight in the Lean Startup Series When teams start out with lean startup, they often build hypotheses that are too precise – we assume we know more than we do. Take the photo-sharing product example. We need to start our lean startup process with discovery – and that is harder to hypothesise. Strategy: Simplify.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

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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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 12, 2023

For example, if you put a plant on a windowsill, it will eventually lean toward the window where the sun comes in, soaking up those rays as the nourishment it needs to sustain its life. […] GUEST POST from Shep Hyken The heliotropic effect is the tendency for any living thing to be drawn toward energy.

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Kainexus

JANUARY 10, 2023

One of the fundamental principles of continuous improvement is that positive change is the responsibility of every employee. Embracing that idea is far easier than making it a day-to-day reality. One powerful tool for keeping improvement work top-of-mind is the daily huddle.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 24, 2020

How to Lean in To Empower Your Team. To achieve this kind of empowerment, it is essential for leaders to lean-in and engage actively and effectively across teams, in addition to arranging coaching sessions. Importance of Leaning in. This transition requires a complete behavioral change from top to bottom of any organization.

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Leanstack

OCTOBER 30, 2018

I often get asked if one can or should model a non-profit using a Lean Canvas. The lean canvas makes defining how we create value for the donor explicit. There are several variations of the lean and business model canvases now floating around for non-profits and social ventures. Why the lean canvas?

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 6, 2021

It originated as part of the Toyota Production System as part of their Lean Manufacturing Method, and is a method for scheduling in which sequence work should be done to achieve a desired outcome. However, in has also been adapted as one of the most popular management methods in Software development and Innovation / Lean Startup methods.

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Leanstack

MARCH 14, 2019

In our work, you’ll find many examples of tactics (like Problem Interviews) that we constantly replace with newer/better ones (like Problem Discovery). A brief history of the Continuous Innovation Framework The early scaffolding for the Continuous Innovation Framework was described in my first book: Running Lean.

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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. How Lean Innovation Re-Invents Product Commercialization Production As discussed above, in most companies, product development is considered “pre-commercialization.”

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Kainexus

JULY 10, 2019

There are several overarching approaches to business management like Six Sigma and Lean, and then there are more acronyms describing tools and techniques then you can shake a stick at. Here are a few process improvement examples that are good starting points. We’re not putting them down.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 11, 2023

If you would like an example of what such a framework might look like, have a look at my Lean Innovation Validation & Execution (LIVE) framework , which outlines a set of questions that any ideas and projects can be judged against.

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 26, 2020

That’s when some productivity engineers from Toyota saw an opportunity to help, by bring their expertise in kaizen and lean manufacturing, to suggest ways of reducing wasted time and effort. And interestingly, every example of process innovation here was completely non-digital. All without significant expense.

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Kainexus

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

For example, when your car is about to run out of gas, a light will alert you to the problem. The Lean business approach takes advantage of this fact and leverages several powerful tools for management and improvement. You don't have to be all in on Lean to take advantage of them.

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Cascade Strategy

JANUARY 15, 2020

For example, if their focus is more on the product development, the KPIs could heavily lean towards the design and production of the product, but if the team also wants to recognise the customer impact, the KPIs could be more inclusive of usage and customer behaviors.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 26, 2014

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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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

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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Business and Tech

MARCH 16, 2023

For example, engineers invented the semiconductor in the United States, but the nation produces about 10% of the world’s supply today. The United States is taking bold steps to reinvigorate its economy through game-changing investments in high-tech research and manufacturing. For more than 50 years, U.S.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As an everyday example, if you only have $1 to spend on lunch, you could either buy a $1 donut, or a $1 apple, but not both. I have developed a management framework designed to achieve all these goals, called the Lean Innovation Validation and Execution (L.I.V.E.) framework, which I will be releasing in the coming weeks.

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Moves the Needle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Lean Innovation Case Study: Bringing a New Product to Market Don’t have time to read the whole article? This is the story of how Edmunds.com used Lean Innovation practices to make their mission a reality. Eventually, they determined that Lean Innovation principles would be the best way to tackle this uncertainty.

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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. Today we are in a change crisis. Yet to be effective, we have to put that learning to work.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

Overall I found Lean UX to be an incredibly insightful and helpful compilation of principles and suggestions for practice/improving process and collaboration as outlined in my review of the book. Are there ways of, for instance, breaking into smaller teams for Lean UX while still tackling larger solutions that you have seen work well?

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Idea to Value

AUGUST 25, 2022

Yes, there may be a hint of selection and confirmation bias with examples being found that fit that number, but the core tenet still makes sense. So if you want your company to be lean and effective at innovation, it may make sense to find ways to allow smaller teams of less than 150 the authority to try and do their best work.

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Leanstack

OCTOBER 30, 2018

I often get asked if one can or should model a non-profit using a Lean Canvas. The lean canvas makes defining how we create value for the donor explicit. There are several variations of the lean and business model canvases now floating around for non-profits and social ventures. Why the lean canvas?

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 2, 2018

You can use Lean Innovation techniques -- Empathy, Experiments, and Evidence to ensure the driving force is sustained through the integration. The DARPA Darling ANNETTE: One of my favorite examples of this was buying what was called a DARPA darling. It doesn't mean that we were always doing the right thing at the right time.

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Leanstack

MARCH 14, 2019

In our work, you’ll find many examples of tactics (like Problem Interviews) that we constantly replace with newer/better ones (like Problem Discovery). A brief history of the Continuous Innovation Framework The early scaffolding for the Continuous Innovation Framework was described in my first book: Running Lean. Stay tuned for more…

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 8, 2018

For example, in an organization’s effort to remain financially stable, a funder can have more power and influence on programs than the community members benefiting from those programs. For example, in a majority of philanthropic work, organizations are strongly encouraged to avoid failure. for a temporary worker per hour to $12.05

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Kainexus

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Lean or the Toyota Production System often gets an unfair rap for being "anti-technology." Some of this mindset results from the old debate between using Material Resource Planning (MRP) computer systems to plan production or the more visual Lean methods of kanban cards and heijunka boxes.

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Planview

MAY 9, 2017

At some point the lean practice came to make sense to you. You began your lean journey. Today, you find yourself with practical understanding of the value of the lean approach, along with its limitations. Kanban, Spaghetti, EPEI) associated with the lean methodology? We share a simple example below.

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Planview

JULY 6, 2017

Field staff, for example, view overarching corporate challenges as peripheral to their work, which involves long hours in challenging environments to keep commitments. Connecting Lean Construction with Collective Intelligence. However, many of the firms struggle to apply the practice within the context of their day-to-day work.

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Planview

JULY 6, 2017

Field staff, for example, view overarching corporate challenges as peripheral to their work, which involves long hours in challenging environments to keep commitments. Connecting Lean Construction with Collective Intelligence. Figure 1: the six tenets of lean from the Lean Construction Institute. offers a way forward.

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Moves the Needle

MAY 18, 2015

Perhaps the most common question we hear is, “How do you get started doing Lean Startup in the enterprise?” We always get a kick discussing enterprise lean startup challenges with The Lean Startup author Eric Ries, so welcomed the opportunity to do so during his recent Kickstarter campaign. It made such an impression on him.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Ash Maurya’s Lean Canvas and Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas come to mind. Similar tools have been around for ages, by the way; used in lean manufacturing processes, Agile, kanban, scrum, etc. Like Lean Startup, the concept of a “value stream” also comes from the lean manufacturing world.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 17, 2024

For example, we need to figure out what to do with AI, and sustainability is now turning from greenwashing into real innovation moves. Most of these systems trace back to the Lean Startup. It's fair to say the future of our companies depend on our innovation function to deliver results.

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Kainexus

MARCH 15, 2022

In Addition to Measures of Success, he is also the author of Lean Hospitals , Healthcare Kaizen , and Practicing Lean. However, the webinar contains many more valuable examples, so we highly recommend that you watch the webinar. This post is a recap of Mark's presentation.

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