Lean Enterprise Institute

In 1987, Nobel laureate Robert Solow made an observation that still echoes: “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.”1 

Companies had spent a decade pouring money into person...

Approximately two decades ago, the three of us crossed paths in a co-learning and coaching experience at Starbucks that pioneered new lean territory. As part of The Management Brief’s

What does radical innovation look like in a lean organization? To answer this question, it’s worth looking at Toyota—more specifically, at the interesting experiment it’s running at Woven City.

The company explicitly presents the project as a “test course for mobility.” Its aim is to enable experimentation with new forms of mobility, services, housing, energy, and ...

This article went from concept to published webpage on an afternoon walk. I gave my AI assistant the task from my phone, walked, stopped once on a park bench to review the draft and approve it, and pushed it live. Concept to published page, on a walk. I was not texting with my head down in the middle of the street — mostly I was just walking and thinking while the AI handled ...

The Management Brief recently began an extended series on coaching and co-learning to illustrate the mutual benefits that partners — mentor and mentee, but also peers — derive from the relationship. Most if not all lean leaders ...