Lean Scale Up InfoGraphic

Why not simplify the process and use an established methodology, a way of thinking to your business? Don’t leave good ideas fail because of a poor process. Processes are not easy. Change is not easy. Lean will not offer you a step by step process to make growth work. Lean only offers a better opportunity Read More …

3-Step Process of Why Things Happen as They Do

The steps of the scientific method can be summarized like this, Observation, Explanation and Testing. This method is the basis for just about every problem-solving method. We might call it the Granddaddy of research experimentation. I think it is worth a review more often than we actually do. The basic logic behind the method, I believe will help you Read More …

90-Day Lean Service Design Program (Exploration)

This is an A3/Canvas outline I have used for introducing a Service Design project with a Lean umbrella. It depicts the online/offline program that is conducted over 90-days. Typically, I would recommend several more follow up session after the initial period as we take the selected prototype through PDCA and eventually SDCA. A common misinterpretation is the Read More …

Essential Reading for Lean, Agile and Service Designers

There have been few books that impacted my work in using Lean in the marketing process than this book, The Theory U by C. Otto Scharmer. Scharmer has just released a new version that is well worth the read,  Amazon: http://amzn.to/2ptDuTE I was using CAP-Do (superimposed over the “U” in the image to show how it Read More …