In this article, let’s reflect on what is leadership buy-in actually means. What leadership is required for a desire to change the company culture? I will argue that the key root cause for failure to sustain cultural changes sits with the inability to effectively demand, to ask for, and coach th...

Raised as a scientist, and transformed through Lean, my work over the past few years has focused on culture. This journey from scientist to “culture guy” has reinforced some interesting observations along the way, the most interesting one to date is this: You already know what a GREAT organization...

Read how baking cookies and front-end development can be releated in this post. ...

LPPDE Chair Peter Palmér shares how he did not end up in Hilton Head, and still was able to summarize the second LPPDE Conference....

I have been fortunate to attend Lean Product and Process Development Exchange Conferences in various locations in Europe and in North America over the last couple of years. I’m looking forward to attend again and meet other experts and influencers face-to-face, and learn best practices within the le...

Peter describes the contents and experiences of the very first Lean Product and Process Development Exchange in Denver (2008)...

I tell my friends in manufacturing they have it easy. Manufacturing is easy to improve because you can physically see the work. You can follow the flow of material from incoming receiving to shipping. You can watch a part come into a machine or into an assembly station and see the physical transf...

Visual Management is a critical component to Lean Product Development. When I visit organizations I often see teams standing in front of a display board discussing their projects the same way they would in a meeting room. It’s just that they are standing in front of a board. They completely miss the...