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LEAN Exchange - LPPDE Conference Just attended the LPPDE conference as a speaker and as an attendee in San Jose. It was a great conference and I want to highlight some take a ways:     The big take away from the LPPDE conference was that everyone didn’t called it LEAN...

How the Turtle turned into a Rabbit Sannah Vinding, Director of Product Development & Marketing at VCC - How the Turtle turned into a Rabbit - Process Improvement at VCC VCC (Visual Communications Company, LLC) supports illuminated electronic components for the global...

  Implementing LEAN Product Development in Organizations of different sizes   LEAN Strategy Deployment   LEAN Tools   How to Boost Profits Through Lean Product Development Check out my article about How to Boost Profits Through Lean Product Development which was...

I love visual content - shouldn't be any surprise if you follow my blog - this visual illustration Boss vs Leader is spot on!

A3 Report When working with continuous improvements processes (e.g. quality improvement-, workflow improvement initiatives) you need the right tools to be successful. One of the tools I can recommend is the “A3”. The “A3” report is a simple storyboard that explains...

Lean Product Development A primary objective of a manufacturer is building high-quality products that solve industry and/or specific customer design challenges. No matter the size of the company, this must be done at a profit or the business will ultimately fail. To...

Unique Pen The pen let's you create unique circuits on paper and uses conductive, silver-based ink. Let's start to make new innovative infrastructure concepts - check out the video below and see it yourself. Pen Developed by AgIC - Source: Kandenko.co.jp...

Lean Thinkers I just read an article about “learning to see lean right in front of you” by David Brunt and I can only agree with David Brunt’s statement: Lean Thinkers love to observe work - work that often goes un-noticed by everyone else!" An example I like to...

        LPPDE LPPDE stands for the Lean Product and Process Development EXCHANGE, and that's exactly what happens at our events. If you long for an open EXCHANGE of ideas, best practices, challenges, and solutions focused on improving your product development process,...

Be Creative and think out side the box when you have to implement a new process Value process mapping takes time and it’s a journey to map the existing process (current state) and then the new process (future state). A key thing is to be sure that the organization is...

Toyota Way When talking Lean Product Development we have all heard about the Toyota Way and you can find many books about how Toyota solves problems, create plans and developing an organization focusing on thinking problem-solvers. The product development process is...

LPPDE North America 2016, Philadelphia I will be speaking at the LPPDE North America Conference about Implementing Lean Product Development in organizations of different sizes. Ever had the feeling of being a “single band member” when deploying lean initiatives across...

Get Smarter Everyday I'm a big believer that you should never stop learning - you will grow personal and professional by keep learning and it's also fun to learn! My goal is to keep learning, and every week I meet with my team, where we talked about what we learned...

What is your Daily Routine? Are you creative early in the morning, afternoon, or after midnight?   We all have different daily routines, which is impacted by family, work, values, interests, hobbies etc and when I look at my routines they have changed over the years...

I love quotes and I get inspired by reading them These are some of my favorites: "Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”-- George S. Patton "I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination”--. Jimmy Dean...

Cool and Innovative LED lamp A friend shared this cool lamps with me and I just have to share it - it's so cool - a lamp with no plugs, no batteries it only uses one candle how innovative is that? Put Lumir C over a lighted candle and it will turn the LED on - so...

So what happens if you stopped reading your emails? I tested it in a small scale, so I didn’t drop it for days or weeks, just for a few hours during the day and it’s so relieving and gave me time to focus and completing important tasks. Normally I will...

Leadership has nothing to do with a title If you look around in your organization there are personalities who just have the drive and passion for their work and translate vision into reality.   I have met leaders who stood out with their great leadership: sense of...

Weekly Team Meetings - how important are they? and what do you actually remember if you think a few weeks back? Over the last couple of months I have address the scope of the weekly meetings in different ways and finally found the perfect structure: Stand-up meeting...

How important are team meetings? What do you actually remember if you think a few weeks back? Over the last couple of months I have address the scope of the weekly meetings in different ways and finally found the perfect structure: Stand-up meeting with: Quick High...