Tag: Lean Startup

Iterating or Improving vs. Doing It Right the First Time

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I've added to a new post to my LinkedIn Influencers series: "The Ability to Iterate is Not an Excuse to Do It Badly...

Steve Blank’s HBR Cover Story on “The #LeanStartup”

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It's free online (at least for the moment), so go check out Steve Blank's Harvard Business Review cover story on "Why the Lean Start-Up...

A Lack of PDSA Made JCP’s New CEO SOL?

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It's been interesting to follow the rise and fall of former Apple retailing executive Ron Johnson during his less-than-two-year stint as CEO at long-struggling...

“I Don’t Always Ask Why, But When I Do, I Ask...

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Last year, when Lean Memes were all the rage (or at least it was fun for a weekend), I had an artist create this...

What I’m Reading: February 5, 2013 – Pizza Lids, Patient Safety,...

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Many of you who took my reader survey (still open and feedback welcome, prizes gone) mentioned that you liked this style of post with...

Podcast #162 – Patrick Vlaskovits and Brant Cooper, Authors of...

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My guests for episode #162 are Patrick Vlaskovits (@pv)  and  Brant Cooper (@brantcooper), previously guests on episode #99. I recently ran into them at the Lean...

A Lean Guy Reads Fast Company, February 2013 Issue

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As part of my occasional "A Lean Guy Reads..." series, I found some ideas related to Lean in the current issue of Fast Company...

Podcast #161 – Steve Bell, Author of ‘Lean IT’ on Agile,...

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Steve Bell, author (most recently) of the book Run Grow Transform: Integrating Business and Lean IT  is my guest for episode #161 of my...

Some Videos from the 2012 #LeanStartup Conference

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It's awesome that Eric Ries puts the video content from The Lean Startup Conference online each year. He's just uploaded some videos to his...

#LeanStartup Conference 2012 Notes – Get Out of the Building

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In his kickoff to the Lean Startup Conference, Eric Ries promised that there was so much content and so many speakers crammed into the...

Lies, Damn Lies, and Vanity Metrics – in Policing and Healthcare

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I arrived in San Francisco yesterday for the Lean Startup conference, where I gave my 5-minute Ignite format talk on the parallels between Lean...

Lean Startup Conference Talk – Parallels to Lean Hospital Design

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Although I blog most often about Lean healthcare, I know a good number of my blog readers are from the "Lean Startup" world who...