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The Management System Your Organization Doesn’t Know It Needs
Most organizations are solving only a fraction of their actual problems — and leaders don't even know it. Here's the…
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Automation, AI, and the Risk of Doing Things Efficiently That Should Not Be Done at All
A recent MIT study found that 95% of generative AI pilots fail to deliver value. This article highlights a crucial…
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When “Future State” Becomes Fiction: Lean, Complexity, and the Vector Theory of Change
Lean's future-state thinking works beautifully in stable environments -- but in complex adaptive systems like AI adoption, a fixed roadmap…
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Leanshoring: Winning with Customers by Bringing the Business Closer
Offshoring strategies built on low-wage assumptions are failing. LEI Founder Jim Womack and GE Appliances CEO Kevin Nolan explain why…
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From Agile to Lean Tech: Theodo’s Journey to Scalable Learning
Theodo scaled from two people to 700 by bridging agile with lean thinking—building a learning system focused on visibility, problem-solving,…
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Lean in the Age of AI: Optimizing the Stream, Not the Coder
Agile and DevOps successfully hid lean for a decade. AI just blew their cover. It’s time to peel back the…
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UMass Memorial Health Transformation Journey
When Dr. Eric Dickson became CEO of UMass Memorial Health in 2013, the system faced default. He established a management…
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Building Communities that Learn: Lessons from the AI Frontier with Gene Kim
DevOps leader Gene Kim discusses AI's business transformation potential, lean principles in technology, and building learning communities focused on value…
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Management: Designing the System Where People and AI Work Together
AI accelerates thinking, but without management systems balancing fast generation with slow reflection, organizations risk scaling bad assumptions instead of…
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Value-Stream Mapping Is Your Missing AI Superpower
AI amplifies what you already have—strong systems or dysfunction. DORA's 2025 research reveals why value-stream management is critical for AI…
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#LeanTech: Lean, Agile, and DevOps Leaders Will Gather to Discuss AI’s Role in Value Creation at Lean Summit
Lean, agile, and DevOps leaders unite at Summit 2026 to explore AI's impact on value creation, featuring Gene Kim on…
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AI: Knowledge Work’s Eli Whitney Moment
MIT's Dr. Steven Spear and LEI's Tyson Heaton explore AI's transformative potential for knowledge work—and the critical risks of deploying…
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