Understanding Lean Innovation

Understanding Lean Innovation

1. Lean innovation is getting smart faster

   • Fast and efficient learning
   • Chose corporate culture
   • Question how things are done
   • It is not academically challenging or difficult to understand

2. What lean innovation is not

   • Is not a manufacturing mehtod
     • Do not view lean as a manufacturing philosophy
     • Key competencies its knowing when a solution is good
     • Value creation
   • Does not kill creativity
     • Purpose: cut costs and remove defects
     • Problem-solving is a learning process
     • Ensures time for trial and error
     • Structure and freedom
     • Organize processes as to strengthen creativity
     • Excessive focus on structure
   • Is not a way to make people work faster
     • Comprises interaction between stakeholders
     • Customers, employees, owners and society in general
     • Interests in relation to the owners
     • Customer focus is an important aspect of lean
     • Benefit for the owners increased competitiveness

3. The concept of waste in lean innovation

   • A simple way to improve efficiency is to eliminate waste
   • Waste can be found everywhere
   • VSM and project evaluations are other ways to identify waste
   • is important to ask whether you are eliminating genuine waste or an activity
   • If you do not remove the right kind of waste, you risk causing a lot of damage
   • Two types of waste
     • Product
     • Process

4. Lean Innovation - Three Parallel Goals

   • 1. Do the right thing
   • 2. Do it right
     • Inner efficiency is about how things are internally organized around the project we are carrying out for a recipient.
     • VSM becomes a key concept
     • Lean innovation there’s need to differentiate
   • 3. Get better
     • Kaizen: continuous improvement
       • Small improvements
         • PDCA cycle

5. Key principles for lean innovation

   • 1. Gemba
     • Going to the place where the truth is found
       • Understanding what happens in real life
     • Experience it yourself
   • 2. Front loading
     • aims to increase the knowledge level in the beginning of the project
   • 3. Visual Management
     • Imagine a future solution or situation
   • 4. Timeboxing
     • Operate with a fixed lead time so the end time for a deliverable is set in stone
       • With timeboxing: time is constant
       • Without timeboxing: effort is constant
   • 5. One-piece flow
     • People and companies need to be able to work on several priorities at once.
   • 6. Takt
     • Predictable and regular rhythm
   • 7. Prototyping
     • Continuosly improving
     • Testing assumptions