by Pete Abilla on August 25, 2010
Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn For those that are students of Lean Manufacturing or the Toyota Production System, but have not stepped inside a Toyota plant, this video will give you a sense of what it looks like. What you won’t see are many examples of Lean, except [...]
by Pete Abilla on August 18, 2010
Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn We went to Costco last weekend and there was a demonstration for Blendtec Blender – you know, those Blendtec “Will it Blend” viral videos on YouTube with that white-coat crazy scientist Blendtec founder blending everything from brooms to the iPhone. As a side-note: [...]
by Pete Abilla on August 17, 2010
Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn This is Eric Ries, explaining The Lean Startup – this is part 2. You can see Eric Ries Lean Startup Video Interview Part 1 here. In other words, how to apply Lean Thinking to entrepreneurship and to building products and launching companies that [...]
by Pete Abilla on August 15, 2010
Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn The principles of Lean have been applied to many areas outside of manufacturing – from lean for healthcare, lean for service operations, lean in education, and even lean for entrepreneurship. Lean for Entrepreneurship is also known as the Lean Startup. What is Leanstartup [...]
by Pete Abilla on August 13, 2010
Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn reCAPTCHA is one of the most innovative ideas that I’ve ever come across. What is fascinating is that reCAPTCHA solves a real human problem in such a simple an innovative way. To some degree, Luis Von Ahn, the inventor of reCAPTCHA, followed the [...]