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How to Implement a Successful Lean Training Program

Kainexus

More and more companies embrace the Lean methodology for continuous improvement and waste reduction. Whether your organization is new to Lean or you need to introduce the idea to new employees and provide ongoing skill development, a successful Lean training program is crucial. Others prefer an in-house approach.

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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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How to Make Good Lean Startup Hypotheses

Tim Kastelle

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. Remember, we’re looking for our first market segment – a specific group, with a specific problem that we can solve. How to Find Your First Customers.

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Continuous Improvement & Employee Empowerment at The Standard Group

Kainexus

The Standard Group is a print management and marketing logistics company based in Reading, Pennsylvania. The team at Standard Group has been using KaiNexus to spread their improvement culture since 2017, when Nick Shonsky, their Director of Continuous Improvement, learned about our software from a friend using KaiNexus at another company.

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THE PROS AND CONS OF A LEAN STARTUP

ImagineNation

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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Dunbar’s number

Idea to Value

Dunbar’s number was first predicted by Dunbar based on research he did on brain sizes of primates, based on how large the social groups of those primates were. This is approximately the number of people which one individual can keep ongoing relationships with.

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Why and How to Model a Non-profit on the Lean Canvas

Leanstack

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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