One reason I love applying Lean thinking in new arenas as my career progresses is that each shift in industry leads to new challenges and new experiences, which forces you to challenge your thinking… and each change in Lean direction…
TL;DR: Time and motion studies haven’t been discredited–the Taylorist mindset behind them has. When used as an expert-driven tool to control workers or set quotas, they cause harm. When used the Lean way–by teaching people to study and improve their…
If you’re interested in the Lean Startup methodology – as an entrepreneur or an “intra-preneur” within a big company, check out Eric Ries’ “Startup Lessons Learned” conference on May 23. If you can’t attend in person in San Francisco, there…
I’m happy to be able to offer a special discount code for Eric Ries’ “Startup Lessons Learned” Conference. Startup Lessons Learned 2011 Monday, May 23rd Hotel Nikko San Francisco, CA Register and save 20% using the code LEANBLOG at checkout.…
Today, I’m happy to bring you an interview, conducted via Skype Chat, with Baka Eipuriru, inventor of a new iPad app called “A3 Sensei.” It is a new app (a pair of apps, actually) that you can use to create and…
There’s a long-standing argument that I’ve been dragged into with a group that calls itself “new systems thinkers.” They loudly criticize Lean as being altogether awful (with the alternative, predictably, being their services). One of them wrote a blog post…
It was nice to read a recent Financial Times article featuring the concept of “Lean Startups” (“Lean start-up thinking that works for all“) and Eric Ries, who I’ll be interviewing soon for my LeanBlog podcast series. FT highlights “Lean” as…
Reminder: I’ll be on “The Lean Nation” today at 4 PM (more details) In this article about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, “Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s (rather run-of-the-mill) house: Facebook founder gives rare glimpse into his private life on Oprah“, there is…
I’ve been really intrigued recently by the innovations in the “Lean Startup” movement. I’ve been reading Steve Blank’s book The Four Steps to the Epiphany about his “Customer Development” model (a process to parallel the traditional product development model). I’ll…
I was able to have a chat with Eric Ries yesterday as we were recording some video of him answering some follow up questions from the LEI webinar he did for us last week on Lean Startups (that will be…
I’ve been a fan of the “Lean Startups” work of Eric Ries since last year, so I’m happy to be producing a free LEI webinar called “Lessons from Lean Startups,” to be presented live on April 28 at 2 PM…
In this post, I’m going to tell you about some upcoming Lean events I’m involved in – planning, producing, or participating. Eric Ries “Lean Startups” Webinar for LEI Shingo Prize Conference Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit I think these will all…