Lean Product Development for Scientists

How do you introduce lean ideas to a group of scientists that think "lean" is only for automakers?

Emphasize the scientific basis of PDCA cycles, use lean tools to improve supporting partners' processes and get systematic issues out of the way so that the scientists can spend more of their time doing science.

Andrew Seddon will share his company's quest to use lean product development principles to kill unworkable concepts before they enter expensive clinical trials, and to lower risk in the concepts that do make it to commercialization.