Is your lean initiative sticky or stuck? In 25 years of facilitating lean transformations in a variety of business and industry environments I have discovered that many a well-intended business owner ...

If you’re like me and never heard of lean, don’t be intimidated: The lean business model simply focuses on implementing efficiencies and paying attention to the customer and employee experience. Lean ...

This article was supposed to be about applying Extreme 5S thinking to developing a marketing plan, but there is something more pressing that I want to share as the year comes to a close and you begin ...

You have an idea you cannot stop thinking about. You can already see the landing page, the product flow, the future users who “will definitely want this.” Then someone asks a simple question: “Who is ...

Early articulations of the Lean Startup concept might have been around since Steve Blank’s work in 2003. But it really only took off with the foundational 2011 book by Eric Ries: a scientific method ...

Venture capital has entered a new era of constraint. According to EY, a $40 billion AI transaction helped prop up venture capital numbers, but without it, funding would have seen a steep 36% drop—and ...

The implementation of a business model involves a detailed understanding of the process through which a company creates, delivers, and captures value. The operational challenges here include the ...