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The Design Brief | People First: Are you investing in your human assets?
In this edition of The Design Brief, we explore why people—not ideas or technology—determine the success of innovation. While organizations…
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Lean AI Journal | Everyone Is Now a Developer: New Jobs in the Age of AI
AI tools are dissolving barriers, turning everyone into a developer. This shift empowers individuals and disrupts traditional corporate control over…
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The Design Brief | Cutting through the Noise in Tech: Sarah Milstein’s Advice for Leaders Who Want to Keep People Focused on Value Creation
Sarah Milstein shares practical guidance for engineering and product leaders on building respectful cultures, streamlining roles, and sustaining lean product…
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Lean AI Journal | Lean and AI?
Unravel the complexity of data into actionable insight. Discover how to use the iterative Lean AI loop—Hypothesis, Evidence, Revision—to cut…
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The Management Brief | The Lean Transformation Framework throughout 2025
Revisiting 2025's best Management Brief stories through the lens of the Lean Transformation Framework's five questions and what they reveal…
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From Toyota to Tech: Wiring Organizations to Win
Steve Spear revealed how leading organizations compete on problem-solving speed—not cost-cutting dashboards or firefighting heroics. Watch the full webinar to…
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The Design Brief | Keeping Our Humanity in Tech: Julia Austin on Why It Pays to Put People First in Product Development
In this episode of The Design Brief, Julia Austin—executive fellow at Harvard Business School and former tech leader at companies…
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Lean AI Journal | Technology Is the Easy Piece of the Equation: Impact = Technology × Behavior × Management
Technology alone rarely delivers impact. Art Smalley explains why true improvement comes from the interaction of technology, behavior, and management—and…
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Team Leaders — The Engine of Toyota’s Performance
Learn why a team leader role is virtually impossible to replicate without the proper structure — and why most lean…
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Design Brief | Reinventing Product Development: People First, Technology Second
A practical roadmap for integrating new tools with Lean Product and Process Development (LPPD) principles to build more capable teams…
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Lean AI Journal | The Assembly Line of Code: an Interactive Story on the Industrialization of Software
Based on our interview with Fabrice Bernhard of Theodo, this interactive experience reveals how lean manufacturing principles unlock AI's potential…
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The Management Brief | Designing Work to More Effectively Solve the Right Problems
In this week’s Management Brief, Nelson Repenning of MIT Sloan discusses the theories shaping organizational transformation. He highlights his “dynamic…
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