Lean

What Does a Lean Startup Look Like?
Picture relentless testing and tailoring to unlock the value puzzle and identify the phantom customer

Barriers to Agility
If you need to kill complexity, here’s where you should train your guns
Lean, Off The Shop Floor and into the City
Oshawa shows how lean principles can begin to transform local government
Fridge on the Fritz? When Lean Goes Wrong
There’s plenty of work for the Maytag Man and others like him because some manufacturers are mistaking lean for cheap
Lean and the Duct Tape Conundrum
Good cost reductions free up resources to innovate and delight customers. Bad ones remove the reasons for customers to stick with you
The Power of Yet
A deceptively simple technique to break a paradigm
Storyboarding for Innovation
Much of what passes for brainstorming are idea-killing sessions that leave organizations thinking they’re not innovative. The technique of storyboarding can remove the worst of these habits and surface both great ideas and a plan of action.