For decades, companies have employed the Lean methodology to reduce waste and inefficiencies in their production or service-based processes. But this continuous improvement approach has the power to ...

Lean thinking originated with the Toyota Production System. Its success in streamlining existing automotive manufacturing processes led to the adaptation of those principles to other areas of business ...

Consider this your crash course on everything lean product design, from tools to start to the technical intricacies of creating user flows, wireframing and identifying red routes for feature ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Bicycle mechanics Wilbur and Orville Wright defied scientific heavyweights by developing the first successful powered airplane. They strayed from the path of their contemporaries, who ...

We quite often get calls, or find ourselves in a conversation where somebody is inevitably asking, “What’s the leanest way to lay out my factory”? This is always a delicate subject because it is ...

Organizations, both large and small, are going lean. Adopting a lean approach, however, is a huge cultural shift, one that can’t be done overnight. Organizations need to find a starting point that ...

Innovation is often born from individuals who view design as a way to shape forward-thinking ideas. While design alone can’t deliver the promise of innovation, frameworks—such as design thinking and ...

At least half of all product launches fail to live up to companies’ expectations. For every four projects that enter development, only one makes it to market, according to a recent study at Georgetown ...