Tag: Lean Startup

A Powerful Message from Toyota’s President, Akio Toyoda: No Best, Only...

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In today's post, I share and write about this message from Akio Toyoda that was posted online: “Making Ever-better Cars and Human Resource Development: The Forces That Power Sustainable Growth“

The Joy and the Pain of Overreacting to Metrics

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As next week's Lean Startup Week approaches, I'm pretty laser focused on preparation for my: Facilitation of the famed Deming Red Bead Experiment My...

Why We Should All Consider Eric Ries’s “Employee’s Bill of Rights”

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As you might know from episode #290 of my podcast with Eric Ries on Monday, his new book was released on Tuesday: The Startup Way: How...

Eric Ries on The Lean Startup Approach and Implementing the Startup...

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Joining me again for episode 290 is a three-time guest, Eric Ries. When we first talked, in episode 115 six years ago, his New York Times bestselling book The Lean Startup was being published. In 2012, we discussed the impact of Toyota's Taiichi Ohno on his work, in episode 142. This time, we're talking about his new book, The Startup Way.

Don’t Turn Your Performance Metrics into “Success Theater”

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One of the phrases and concepts that I love from Eric Ries and The Lean Startup is the idea of "success theater," which describes the efforts...

How “Process Behavior Charts” Save Us Time and Help Us Sleep...

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I've been writing blog posts about using "process behavior charts" - a form of "Statistical Process Control (SPC) chart" or "control chart" that can be...

Stop Wasting People’s Time (in a #LeanStartup or any Organization) by...

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As Eric wrote about in The Lean Startup (and as many others say), time is the most precious commodity anybody has. I think that's true in startups and it's true in other organizations. Everybody says they don't have enough time. So, we have to use it wisely.

Free Mini-Workshop: Running of the Red Beads in Austin – September...

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This year, I have the opportunity to run the W. Edwards Deming "Red Bead Experiment" at Lean Startup Week in San Francisco, with the...

A Look Back at a 2011 #LeanStartup Podcast with @EricRies and...

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In today's post, I look back at my 2011 interview with Eric Ries about his book "The Lean Startup." I share a new PDF summary of the discussion along with some excerpts from the book that cite W. Edwards Deming and Taiichi Ohno. I'll be speaking at the annual Lean Startup Week event this year (and this post contains a link that will save you 15%). His next book, "The Startup Way," looks at how bigger companies like GE and Toyota can use Lean Startup methods to bring new products to market more effectively...

The 2017 Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit (#HCSummit17) Begins

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This week, I'm in Palm Springs for the annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit. Follow along on Twitter using hashtag #HCSummit17. Today, I'm teaching my "Better Metrics"...

Guest Post: An Exciting Innovation and MVP – The “Uber Sensei”...

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Dr. Les Muda here... I’ve been working Uber to help them to disrupt another stale industry… not just taxi drivers, but Lean Sensei (or is it “senseis?”). Check out my planned app.

Podcast #268 – @TomEhrenfeld, on #Lean Books & #LeanStartup

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My guest for Episode #268 is a long-time friend of mine in the Lean community and Lean Enterprise Institute circles, Tom Ehrenfeld (@tomehrenfeld). Tom is...