While Lean principles have been known and applied in a variety of manufacturing processes, the applications in product development have been slower to come. Several companies have also applied Lean to ...

There is a myriad of reasons why most startups fail, ranging from a lack of organizational structure to minimal understanding of who their customer is or what their product should look like. Ten years ...

IBM Rational's MCIF offers a twist on Kaizen, a lean manufacturing mainstay and the process of "continuous improvement" practiced by Toyota for 50 years I was just about to write an essay on Kaizen in ...