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Norbert Majerus elaborates on how to start lean in product development....
Göran Gustafsson
March 20, 2018
Michael Kennedy, one of the most well-known names in Lean Product Development will give his first keynote at an LPPDE conference in Paris. This may come as a surprise considering how many of these events that he has attended over the years....
Norbert Majerus
September 15, 2017
In the early parts of this century, Lean, especially lean-sigma came under intense criticism: An article in the Forbes magazine (Norbert Majerus, Lean-Driven Innovation, CRC Press, 2015) documented results, mainly from 3M,...
Peter Palmer
September 01, 2017
I believe that learning, especially the learning needed to change your way of thinking, needs different approaches and that it takes time.
You need to enter the learning loop well prepared, know your True North and break it down into problems to solve and small experiments to learn, preferably li...
Göran Gustafsson
August 25, 2017
In product development it is not only crucial to really understand the problem to solve, that is, to find the root cause. It is equally important how to formulate the problem. What we say and write reflects our thinking. Conversely, our thinking is influenced by what we hear and read. If we want to ...
Ron Marsiglio
August 06, 2017
There are always nice-to-have features, new technology and breakthrough ideas in new product development. In fact, new products are usually littered with unnecessary and avoidable risk. One high profile example was an all new wide body, mostly carbon fiber, aircraft. One feature of the plane was add...
This is a good question that we ask ourselves as we look at our busy schedules and deadlines. Can we find the time to squeeze in a few days at a conference when fires continue to rage back in the office? ...
Bella Englebach
July 16, 2017
I’ve been attending the Lean Product and Process Development Exchange conference for several years now. I attended the first LPPDE in Denver in 2008, and while I haven’t had “perfect attendance,” I’ve made quite a few of the exchanges, in North America and in Europe. That first conference was chall...
Suzanne van Egmond
July 08, 2017
When I reflect on the conference theme of LPPDE North America 2017 in San Jose: Accelerating Innovation, an apparently counter intuitive insight comes to my mind. To accelerate innovation you need to slow down. Wow! How can that be done? When I work slower I cannot be faster to market, can I?...
Peter Palmer
June 15, 2016
Our website tells us that The Lean Product and Process Development Exchange, Inc. (LPPDE) is a nonprofit organization created to foster opportunities to grow and share the knowledge, expertise and experiences that help organizations use lean product development to dramatically improve product develo...
Suzanne van Egmond
May 06, 2016
In lean implementation in factories or transactional offices, typically, one value stream is considered:...
Suzanne van Egmond
April 15, 2016
Why leadership and team behaviors are essential to achieve excellence...
Suzanne van Egmond
April 08, 2016
Innovation is investing in new ideas, and that comes with a risk as new ideas always require knowledge gaps to be filled and it is never certain if this will be successful. Many companies have something like “achieving innovation excellence” in their mission; but what is excellent innovation? Innova...
Suzanne van Egmond
April 05, 2016
Knowledge plays a central role in innovation and product development. Similarly, when implementing lean in product development, one needs to pay significant attention to knowledge....
Suzanne van Egmond
April 03, 2016
When a company wants to innovate, it needs to address both the efficiency as well as the effectiveness of the innovation process: efficiency, because we do not want to spend time and effort on aspects that do not add any value and focus on the value adding part of the work. Effectiveness has to be i...
Suzanne van Egmond
March 23, 2016
Many people indeed use the two terms “lean innovation” and “lean product development” as if they are the same thing. In fact, when you look at how they define the terms, they are the same thing – the use of innovation may be part of the company culture, for example...
Suzanne van Egmond
March 17, 2016
When you would retrieve all conference agendas of previous LPPDE conferences, you would see a common denominator: visual planning methods. The reason is that many leanPD practitioners choose to first experiment with forms of visual planning for their development projects....
Suzanne van Egmond
February 28, 2016
Why? When implementing lean in product development we should look at it from two angles. The first angle is the one that is mostly considered:...
Suzanne van Egmond
January 31, 2016
Lean experts will tell you that, when you want to be lean, it is important to remove waste. Waste is anything the customer is not willing to pay for....
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