Will the Mvp crush the Lean Startup?

This seems an appropriate post this week since there was big hullabaloo about a certain App that claimed certain features and did not deliver. If they intended it to be a minimum viable product (Mvp), let’s just say there was more MINIMUM than viable in the product. Though it was discovered and bantered about the Read More …

The New Names of Marketing are still PDCA

There is a changing emphasis on customer interaction and the importance of embracing uncertainty in your organization. In an interview in the MIT Sloan Management Review with Michael Schrage on Value-Creation, Experiments and Why IT does Matter, he stated: “The cost of experimentation is now the same or less than the cost of analysis. You Read More …

Left Brain Dominant Design Thinker

In a recent blog post, It’s not your Grandmother’s Lean anymore! I introduced a few thoughts from Tim Ogilvie, CEO of innovation strategy consultancy Peer Insight new book Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Toolkit for Managers. I would encourage you to visit that post before listening to the podcast and leave the diagram up Read More …

Lean: Prototype Early and Often

Agile Software, Product Development and in the Lean Startup you hear discussion of the Minimum Viable Product or MVP which is a strategy used for fast and quantitative market testing of a product or product feature. More information can be found in a blog post, Developing a Minimum Viable Product. A MVP is not a Read More …

Asking the right questions about Lean?

In a thread on the Design Thinking Network Blog, blogger Nick Crane asked the question, “Can Lean enhance or contribute to ‘Service Design”? Graham Hill, who can be found at the Customer Insider blog left the following comment to this question: Hi Nick, Are you sure you are asking the right question? Let me explain. Read More …