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Podcast S7E151: Jim Euchner – Lean Startup in Large Organisations

Idea to Value

Jim is Honorary Professor at Aston Business School (UK) and Editor in Chief of Research-Technology Management, a peer-reviewed journal for practitioners of innovation, technology and research management. Topics covered in this episode: 00:02:00 – Lean Startup practices (as discussed with Steve Blank ).

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What is Lean Project Management? Principles & Benefits

Kainexus

Lean project management is the application of Lean manufacturing principles to the discipline of project management. While most of the ideas germinated at Toyota in the 1940s, they have widespread utility across every industry and for organizations of any size.

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What Other Industries Have Learned from Lean Manufacturing

Kainexus

Lean manufacturing is a business methodology that is based on tools and techniques implemented at Toyota in their post-WWII efforts to improve the quality of its automobiles. Visits to Toyota to observe Lean manufacturing in action are common to this day. Visits to Toyota to observe Lean manufacturing in action are common to this day.

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Job One of the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act: Closing the Digital Divide

Business and Tech

Simultaneously, the COVID lockdown exposed huge pockets of the United States that do not have access to modern tools nor technology to educate our young. Urban, rural, rustbelt, and tribal communities united in their outcry over the educational plight of our children.

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Are microschools the future of education?

Christensen Institute

To start, we first need to take a quick dive into the history of the steel industry (and yes, and I promise it relates). Unlike their giant predecessors that needed large blast furnaces to process raw ore, minimills made new steel products by melting scrap steel using a new technology called the electric arc furnace.

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Going Lean, Again

etventure

Friedrich Arnold, Senior Project Manager at etventure, explains how manufacturers can embrace the Lean Startup methodology as the centerpiece of their Digital Transformation. Proudly, the Head of Production explained to me: “We use Lean Production – meaning we eliminate waste from our manufacturing process.” The Proud Leader.

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Fears of those unknowns

Paul Hobcraft

We seem confronted with rapid change, and it is primarily within the business world related to technology and market uncertainty that is driving this. We do need to ‘lean in’ on many specialists and experts to help us, not just business consultants! As well, and ask, are we really interested?

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