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Toyota Veteran Naoto Kitagawa’s 17 Principles for Chief Engineers
Former Toyota chief engineer Naoto Kitagawa shares his 17 principles for leading product development, with reflections from John Shook and…
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The Lean Transformation at Viwinco, Part 4: Companywide Performance Management and Planning
In this four-part series, LEI parses the lean improvements at Viwinco through a lens of the Lean Transformation Framework (LTF)…
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What the History of Lean Can Teach Us About AI Adoption
Art Smalley draws on Taylor, Toyota, and a century of lean history to explain why AI adoption trails AI capability…
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Watch: The Work of a Chief Engineer, with Jim Morgan and John Shook
In this webinar, Jim Morgan and John Shook, who wrote the book's foreword, discuss what Kitagawa's account reveals and how…
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You Can’t Improve What You Can’t See: Why Knowledge Work Could Get Worse Before It Gets Better
Knowledge work hides its waste behind screens. Steve Pereira explains why AI could make invisible work worse and why making…
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The Lean Transformation at Viwinco, Part 3: Building Workforce Capabilities
Viwinco CEO Mike Duncan learned that lean is fundamentally about building people capability. Part 3 shows how the custom window…
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Toyota’s Answer to Knowledge Walking Out the Door
Almost nothing his senpai taught him was written down, says Fran Noto — and that, he argues, is the knowledge…
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The Lean Transformation at Viwinco, Part 2: From Lean Fixes to Lean Redesign
Viwinco redesigned its custom-window lines for true one-piece flow, cutting WIP by 80% and seal failures by 90% — with…
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A Lean Coach on Coaching: Karen Gaudet
Most of us have experienced a coaching relationship as we sought to improve our organizations — receiving instruction and advice…
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Excellence in Product Development Takes High Performing Cross-Functional Teams, Here’s What They Look Like
Staffing teams upfront won't fix rocky launches. John Drogosz on the four behaviors that separate cross-functional teams that gel from…
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From 40 Hours to 30 Minutes: How AI Will Remake the Shopfloor and Empower Workers
An engineer spent 40 hours on a time study. AI ran the same analysis in 30 minutes for $4 at…
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The Lean Transformation at Viwinco, Part 1: Moving Forward with Lean
Growing fast isn't the same as running lean. See how custom window maker Viwinco began trading firefighting and push production…
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