The Lean Edge: How lean is the Lean Startup?
"How lean is the lean startup? The lean startup movement is growing fast, now highlighted in the HBR yet no one in the lean movement seems to comment or connect - how do you feel about the lean startup? What can we learn from it?"
Posted on May 21, 2013
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Dennis Sherwood

Denis Sherwood: How would you develop innovation from lean and vice-versa?

By Dennis Sherwood, Author of Forest for the Trees and Smart Things to Know about Innovation and Creativity - Last updated: Tuesday, May 11, 2010
I ran an innovation event with a manufacturer of pumps a couple of weeks ago, which went very well, with a huge number of powerful ideas. This organization is a devotee of lean, and although there is a very large overlap between lean and innovation, it’s often hard to see how to exploit this in practice: how would you practically develop innovation through lean and vice versa?
Dennis Sherwood

Dennis Sherwood: what could be the 4 laws of “organodynamics”?

By Dennis Sherwood, Author of Forest for the Trees and Smart Things to Know about Innovation and Creativity - Last updated: Friday, March 12, 2010
If thermodynamics is the science of getting useful work out of engines, then surely organodynamics is the science of getting useful work out of organisations. Thermodynamics is based on three laws (or according to some purists, four): what three (or four!) laws of organodynamics would you suggest?
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