Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

By sheer happenstance, I had just gotten a copy of Gemba Walks , a collection of essays by James Womack , a co-author of the automotive classic The Machine That Changed The World and a pioneering importer of Toyota-inspired lean production insights and methodologies to America. What does it mean for your company and industry?

Innovation 8

Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 8

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

At the team level, Lean prioritizes helping members pinpoint inefficiencies and work together to optimize results for the customer. It helps teams stay focused on their goals without becoming overwhelmed at any one stage of the creation process.

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Efficiency Tools Survey Report 232

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy . The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. Lean Product Development and Customer Development processes) decreases the chance of a startup’s failure.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

More and more companies are adopting software and product development frameworks like Agile , Scrum , and Kanban — which promote quick, iterative, lean production — to deliver higher quality products, faster. This helps us get on the same page about which expenses we need to make to meet our goals.

Project 8

Project Management Agility White Paper 8