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Chief Engineer: the Ultimate Working Together Leadership Role
The chief engineer (CE) has become iconic in product development folklore, and rightly so. As my former colleague, Hau Tai Tang once said, it is the ultimate stand-and-deliver job. Whether airplane,...
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The Future of Lean in the Age of AI and Automation: Insights from...
The Future of People at Work Symposium in Detroit wasn’t just another conference with a series of lectures. Instead, it embodied the very principles of Lean thinking it sought to explore, creating a...
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Bridging the Education-Industry Gap for Future Lean Leaders*
By Future of People at Work Symposium Participants and Claude AI*As we continue our exploration of insights from the Future of People at Work Symposium, we turn our attention to a critical challenge...
View ArticleSpreading Lean Thinking to Software and Startups: a Conversation with Regis...
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Lean Beyond the Workplace: Addressing Societal Challenges*
By Future of People at Work Symposium Participants and Claude AI*As we continue our journey through the insights gleaned from the Future of People at Work Symposium, we turn our attention to a topic...
View ArticleThe Lean Case for Founder Mode (plus Manager Mode)
This month, an essay by Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham sparked a debate about how CEOs should operate—founder CEOs, in particular. Graham wrote the essay after hearing Airbnb co-founder and CEO...
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The Next Revolution in Software Product Design
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The Future of Lean: Adapting to Evolving Workplace Models
By Future of People at Work Symposium Participants and Claude AI*Kelly Marlow, AVP of Digital Workplace Experience at Nationwide, set the tone for this discussion with her insightful presentation on...
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Moving from Agile to Lean: a Conversation with Sandrine Olivencia
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Understand Before You Execute: a Conversation by AI
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Interview with José Roberto Ferro and Robson Gouveia about the book Daily...
INTERVIEW – As their book on daily management is released in the US in English, we talk to the authors about the thinking behind the book and the lessons learned since its launch in Brazil three years...
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Keeping Classroom Technologies Functioning: Application of lean principles...
Organizations that repair or remanufacture goods face unique challenges not common to the original production of a product. While any kind of demand is somewhat unpredictable, repair operations face...
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From Agile Fatigue to Experimentation: Finding a Better Way in Development
Agile, lean, TQM, design thinking—there is no shortage of management methodologies promising to revolutionize the way we work and achieve results. There is little doubt that each of these methods has...
View ArticleRefreshing Lean: Attracting the Next Generation of Practitioners
By Future of People at Work Symposium Participants and Claude AI*This article is the fifth in a series exploring the key insights and discussions from the recent Future of People at Work Symposium, a...
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Foreword to Daily Management to Execute Strategy
Books about management may be the most ubiquitous of all business titles. But Daily Management by José Roberto Ferro and Robson Gouveia proves that we needed at least one more. Daily Management...
View ArticleSolving Loneliness in Hospitals with AI and Robotics: a Conversation with...
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Introduction to Daily Management to Execute Strategy
We receive signals that something is not right more often than we would like. Despite real evidence coming to light, we are reluctant to acknowledge that we have a problem and that we need to do...
View ArticleRedesigning Patient Pathways: a Conversation with Dr. Carlos Frederico Pinto
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View ArticleHoshin Kanri Ensures Frontline Problem-Solving within Lean Management
Last week Josh Howell, President of LEI and my colleague for more than 10 years, started a new series for our community called “The Management Brief” that will draw upon our experience in and out of...
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The Long Journey to Lean Management
One of the most important discoveries of the Lean Community over the past 30 years has been that lean techniques cannot create sustainable lean enterprises without a lean management system. And we are...
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