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 ...

We’ve already written a little on one of our other blogs about the lean approach we’re taking to building our new product, PingPong: a tool to help product designers and startups quickly schedule ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“They need a conveyor,” said the guy on my left as we observed the assembly process. Operators walked back and forth from the assembly station to bring finished parts to the shelf and to get ...

Lean design programs cut waste that is hard to see. Lean manufacturing gets lots of press and for good reason. It drives waste out of manufacturing facilities and makes them more profitable. It's ...

There is a myriad of reasons why most startups fail, ranging from a lack of organizational structure to minimal understanding of who their customer is or what their product should look like. Ten years ...