Using the 5 Questions of The Lean Strategy

My Amazon review of The Lean Strategy: Using Lean to Create Competitive Advantage, Unleash Innovation, and Deliver Sustainable Growth: This may be the most powerful book I have read on Lean in the last 10 years. What the authors have done is transferred the knowledge of primarily Toyota to everyday organizational challenges outside of the automotive Read More …

TRIZ for Business Solutions

Victor Fey, a TRIZ Master and a close associate of Genrikh Altshuller, the founder of TRIZ, has over 35 years’ experience in TRIZ research, training, and application. Since The TRIZ Group’s inception in 1995, Victor has collected more than two decades of consulting experience serving the Global 1000. In this innovation consulting capacity, Victor’s work has Read More …

Leadership in a Lean Turnaround

Art Byrne will deliver Tuesday, September 12th Keynote Presentation at the Lean People Development Summit hosted by Lean Frontiers in Savannah, GA The Lean People Development Summit draws professionals from HR, continuous improvement, and leadership to explore how best to design job roles aimed at improvement, build problem solving skills, define process improvement competencies, and develop Read More …

Need a Agile, Lean Mindset – Hire a Vet (Video)

Engaging With Veteran Talent is a powerful reference for employers seeking to source, hire, onboard and develop Veteran talent. By the year 2023, estimates indicate that 3.5 million Veterans will be active in the civilian workforce. Savvy employers are planning the programs to attract and capture the contributions of this valuable employee base. Lida Citroen is Read More …

TRIZ for Breakthrough Thinking (Video)

Recently, I have intended several of the workshop offered by Oxford Creativity and found them presented well and at a good pace. I am finding the principles of TRIZ to coincide very well with current day practices of innovation. It is strikingly similar to some of the other processes in innovation like the JOBS-to-be-Done work of Tony Ulwick. Read More …

Discussion with the Founder of Kanbanize

Dimitar Karaivanov, CEO and Co-founder of Kanbanize, thinks that you can better use out of your Kanban Software. Through the success of his company, he has proven that Kanban can be used for product development and not just change management activities. He is passionate about achieving extreme performance at scale and applying Lean / Kanban outside IT. Read More …