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What Does a Lean Startup Look Like?

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

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

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

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

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

The Power of Yet

A deceptively simple technique to break a paradigm

Storyboarding for Innovation

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.