LEI hosted its annual Lean Summit March 18-19 in Carlsbad, CA, bringing together over 500 attendees representing industries from healthcare to manufacturing to construction. Under the theme “Shaping Tomorrow, Developing People,” the Lean Summit offered a platform for business leaders to share inspirational stories of transformation and opportunities for lean practitioners to connect. Below is a summary of our keynote speakers, who offered countless insights into how to successfully go about lean transformation and how lean can address today’s most significant challenges, from leveraging AI to ..read more

Our latest webinar features LEI Senior Advisor, Jim Morgan, and co-founder and CTO of software group Theodo, Fabrice Bernhard. They explore how lean principles and practices enable innovation with quality in hardware and software development. During the webinar, gain insights into: The Fundamentals of Lean Product and Process Development: Understand how lean thinking can improve product and process development, enabling companies to launch better products faster. Lessons from Hardware and Software: Explore successful lean applications in the automotive and software sectors, gaining insights t ..read more

Be among the first to get the latest insights from LEI’s Lean Product and Process Development (LPPD) thought leaders and practitioners. This podcast was delivered to subscribers of The Design Brief, LEI’s newsletter devoted to improving organizations’ innovation capability. It is the second of four in a series on process development entitled “Making Things Well.” Read the first in the series here. Subscribe to the Design Brief In this episode of the WLEI podcast, we speak with Ben Armstrong, Executive Director of MIT’s Industrial Performance Center, and ..read more

Be among the first to get the latest insights from LEI’s Lean Product and Process Development (LPPD) thought leaders and practitioners. This article was delivered to subscribers of The Design Brief, LEI’s newsletter devoted to improving organizations’ innovation capability. It is the first of four in a series on process development entitled “Making Things Well.” Subscribe now Have you ever launched a new process only to find it riddled with old problems, either problems encountered during a previous product launch or problems that had been solved once before? In the fall of 202 ..read more

Be among the first to get the latest insights from LEI’s Lean Product and Process Development (LPPD) thought leaders and practitioners. This article was delivered to subscribers of The Design Brief, LEI’s newsletter devoted to improving organizations’ innovation capability. Subscribe now This month’s Design Brief is a challenge to improve your new product and process quality. I realize that this may not be a particularly popular topic right now. Many would rather talk about breakthrough innovation or shipping minimally acceptable products. But the news is full of stories about ..read more

Be among the first to get the latest insights from LEI’s Lean Product and Process Development (LPPD) thought leaders and practitioners. This article was delivered to subscribers of The Design Brief, LEI’s newsletter devoted to improving organizations’ innovation capability. It is the fourth of five in a series on quality entitled “Whatever Happened to Quality First? Rethinking Product Development the Wake of Recalls and Catastrophic Failures.” Click to read the first, second, and third articles. Subscribe to the Design Brief Electrification has given rise to ..read more

Be among the first to get the latest insights from LEI’s Lean Product and Process Development (LPPD) thought leaders and practitioners. This article was delivered to subscribers of The Design Brief, LEI’s newsletter devoted to improving organizations’ innovation capability. It is the third of five in a series on quality entitled “Whatever Happened to Quality First? Rethinking Product Development the Wake of Recalls and Catastrophic Failures.” Click to read the first and second articles. Subscribe now Toyota’s quality, reliability, and durability are legendary. Toyota has domina ..read more

Be among the first to get the latest insights from LEI’s Lean Product and Process Development (LPPD) thought leaders and practitioners. This article was delivered to subscribers of The Design Brief, LEI’s newsletter devoted to improving organizations’ innovation capability. Subscribe now “No Way!” barked my department chief engineer when I suggested that the true customer of engineering is operations. “I despise those SOBs and there is no way in the world I would ever consider them my customer,” he emphatically pronounced.  I had spent the past two years investigating the ..read more

In this episode of the WLEI podcast, LEI speaks with Emily Swaney and Alli Kulp from OhioHealth. Emily is the senior director of OhioHealth’s lean promotion office, leading the organization’s continuous improvement team. Alli is a senior advisor in the lean promotion office and previously worked as a registered nurse. In our discussion, we explore:  The lean journey at OhioHealth since 2006 and their goal of creating a culture of 35,000 problem solvers.  OhioHealth’s strategic goal deployment process and how they cascade goals throughout such a large healthcare system.  How lea ..read more

Be among the first to get the latest insights from LEI’s Lean Product and Process Development (LPPD) thought leaders and practitioners. This article was delivered to subscribers of The Design Brief, LEI’s newsletter devoted to improving organizations’ innovation capability. Subscribe now Software is eating the world. That means the software industry cannot keep producing the estimated average of 10 defects per 1,000 lines of code.  One solution is to adopt the standards of the aerospace industry. The software engineering team for the space shuttle produced one defect in 40 ..read more