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How Lean Agile Methodology Can Help You Avoid Waste

Kainexus

Waste in project management refers to any resource or effort expended without adding value to the project's ultimate goals and objectives. Adopting Lean Agile project management principles, which maximize value while minimizing waste, is essential to mitigate waste in project management.

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Proven Lean Strategies for Optimal Business Performance

Kainexus

Most modern business management methodologies have roots in Toyota's approach to quality improvement and business optimization following World War II. Techniques included in what they called The Toyota Way have been borrowed, adapted, and rearranged into an approach known as Lean manufacturing.

LEAN 81
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It’s Time To Upgrade Your Innovation Management System

Innov8rs

This (economic) reality has highlighted the limitations of existing innovation systems, underscoring the necessity for a more efficient and effective approach to innovation management, as Frank Mattes and Dennis Boeckler suggested during a recent Innov8rs Learning Lab session. Most companies have an innovation management system.

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How African organizations can manage the continent’s scientific brain drain

Christensen Institute

Leaning into these questions and others can help leaders develop employment experiences that match the importance of the work these African scientists are doing. This talent migration, referred to as ‘brain drain,’ exacerbates the existing training gaps and hampers the sustainability of research within Africa.”

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Gemba Walk Checklist for Manufacturing [How To] | KaiNexus

Kainexus

The term "Gemba" comes from Japanese and is widely used in various industries, particularly in lean manufacturing practices (or lean in other settings). In the manufacturing context, it refers to the place where value is created, where the actual work happens, such as the shop floor or production line.

LEAN 74
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Leaning into Change Management

Innovation Excellence

Change management used to refer to the practice of controlling changes to a system, but increasingly the term has come to be used more often to describe the profession and the practice of managing organizational change.

LEAN 52
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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. But they are manageable. Your subtitle refers to “lean” principles; I’m assuming they respond to these restraining forces? Here’s the secret to Unicorn innovation.

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