LPPDE - The Science of Improving Innovation

One of the core principles of Lean Product Development is to lead with Entrepreneur System-Designers. Now you can read our latest blog post “Entrepreneur System-Designer Leadership: Leading Like a Tinkerer, not a Bureaucrat,” written by Christer Lundh. ? The Entrepreneur System-Designer is essentially the modern-day Chief Engineer, the architect of both product and process. This leader isn’t just a decision-maker but a technical expert, a customer advocate, and a relentless experimenter. Their primary goal? To guide teams by defining the direction of travel—a clear but flexible path that allows for rapid adjustments as teams learn through iteration. ? How do your organization lead product development? Share your thoughts. Join us at this year's "LPPDE In-person Conference Europe 2025." It comes up in Stockholm, Sweden, on May 5–8, 2025. This exchange perseveres toward ways to Shorten Time-to-Market. Our objective is to make sure you walk away inspired; with a supportive network and some new ideas you can implement right away! ? View the conference agenda, list of speakers and register today! You find the link to the conference event page in the comments below. Looking forward to see you there, Lean Product and Process Exchange (LPPDE - The Science of Improving Innovation) ? #innovation #entrepreneurship #technology #leadership #lean ? Link to blog post: https://lnkd.in/dw3zMSJN

Bringing Innovative Products and Services to Market Faster is More Critical Than Ever, yet R&D managers often struggle to accelerate timelines without sacrificing quality. Shortening time-to-market requires more than just urgency—it demands leadership alignment, cultural shifts, and process discipline to drive meaningful change. Lean principles provide a proven framework to streamline collaboration, enhance problem-solving, and create a more responsive development process. Come join us on May 5–8 in Stockholm, Sweden, as we persevere toward ways to Shorten Time-to-Market. Our objective is to make sure you walk away inspired; with a supportive network and some new ideas you can implement right away! View the conference agenda, list of speakers and register today! #innovation #entrepreneurship #technology #leadership #lean

Great LPPDE Virtual Summit coming up Thursday 6th of March, 1-3:45pm GMT. Come and learn from / exchange ideas and knowledge with: Faith Burndred, Nestlé Product Technology Centre – Experiences with Lean in Confectionery R&D – Sharing Our Journey ? Audrey Gilfillan, LPC & Alison West, Applied Wellness Initiatives and University of Colorado Boulder – Management's Guide to Supporting Engineers' Mental Health in the Workplace Peter Stevens, Personal Agility – First Impressions: Combining Lean and Scrum for Hardware Development #innovation?#lean?#development?#culture?#creative?#lppde?#management?more info on?www.lppde.org

Peter Stevens, Co-founder Personal Agility – First Impressions: Combining Lean and Scrum for Hardware Development I recently started coaching a project to create a new hardware development process. Our team combined Lean and Scrum principles to accelerate design cycles, speed up time-to-market and reduce the cost of change. Achieving this requires not only improvements within the development team, but also with stakeholders up and down the organization. I’ll share my initial lessons and highlight some of the benefits and challenges we’ve encountered. 1.?Lean and Scrum: Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together? 2.?Learning and Unlearning – When You Do Something New, You Let Go of Something Familiar 3.?How I Learned to Love Chaos and Conflict 4.?It’s About People 5.?It’s About Cooperation Peter Stevens is called by leaders and executives when they want their corporate initiatives to start moving forward. He get things unstuck. You can get things done faster than you ever thought possible! He is engaged as Executive Coach, Keynote Speaker, Agility Officer, Scrum Trainer, or Change Leader. He talks about Agility, Leadership Skills, Scrum, Scrum for Hardware. Peter is the creator of The Personal Agility System (tm), the simple, scalable leadership framework for aligning actions with priorities. He wrote Ten Agile Contracts, the bridge between procurement and product delivery, and he co-created the Agile Contract Manifesto. ?? My Website: https://lnkd.in/dfhuY3WS ?? Contact me: https://lnkd.in/e3Utak3m

Presenting the first speaker for the upcoming LPPDE Virtual Summit March 6th! Faith Burndred, Business Improvement Project Manager at Nestlé Product Technology Centre – Experiences with Lean in Confectionery R&D – Sharing Our Journey This presentation invites you virtually to Nestlé Product Technology Centre, York – the global home of Confectionery R&D. Aimed at an audience members who are newer to Lean Product and Process Development, the presentation will share snapshots and practical examples of how a Lean approach has helped improve people and team engagement, processes, project delivery, and the physical work environment.?The audience will also get a glimpse of the workplace culture at the Centre and how it continues to evolve. Faith Burndred has spent her entire career working at Nestlé in the Confectionery category in various technical roles, firstly supporting operations and then R&D. During the last 12 years she has championed the use of Lean thinking both at her home Centre in York and more widely within the global Nestlé R&D community.

Great LPPDE Virtual Summit coming up Thursday 6th of February, 1-3:45pm GMT. Come and learn from / exchange ideas and knowledge with: Bengt Johansson, LPPDE – A Learning Journey – Capturing the Right Knowledge ? Steve Holt, Boeing – The Chief Engineer’s Role in Creating High Performance Teams and Successful Products: Learning from History Charles Baker, Independent Consultant – Knowledge Flow in Product Development ?#innovation?#lean?#development?#culture?#creative?#lppde?#management?more info on?www.lppde.org

Great speaker confirmed to the LPPDE Virtual Summit February! Charles Baker, Principal at Lean Powered Innovation LLC – Knowledge Flow in Product Development In manufacturing, Lean concentrates on the efficient flow of a product thru manufacturing operations.?In Product Development, the equivalent analogy is the flow of knowledge into the product during development.?This talk will focus on the story of Johnson Controls product development turnaround, and the role of knowledge flow in this process. Charlie Baker is the Principal at Lean Powered Innovation LLC.?He has over 35 years of experience in top engineering and marketing executive positions at Honda, General Motors, Johnson Controls, and Harley-Davidson.?At General Motors he was Executive Director and Global Functional Leader for Interiors from 2011 to 2016.?At Johnson Controls he was Group Vice President for Engineering for Automotive Experience from 2005 to 2010.?At Honda he was Vice President of Honda R&D Americas, and Chief Engineer for 5 vehicle developments including the original Acura MDX, the original Honda Pilot, and the 6th generation Honda Accord.

Speaker confirmed to the LPPDE Virtual Summit February! Steve Holt, Technical Fellow, Boeing – The Chief Engineer’s Role in Creating High Performance Teams and Successful Products: Learning from History In “The Toyota Product Development System,” James Morgan and Jeffrey Liker describe the important role that the Chief Engineer plays in the product development at Toyota.?This presentation looks at four examples starting in the 1940s in which aerospace products were designed in times that today seen so short as to be almost unbelievable—including designing and building a jet fighter in 90 days.?This presentation shows how each was led by a Chief Engineer that closely matched Morgan and Liker’s observations and how this enabled breakthrough innovation and speed in development. Steve Holt is a Socio-Technical Systems Engineer with a long fascination with product development looked at as a complex system. He began his career as a stress analyst and eventually ended up as a Systems Engineer. He was able to get an early exposure to many great thinkers, including: W.Edwards Deming, Joseph Juran, Eli Goldratt, and Allen Ward.?He makes frequent use of Dave Snowden’s Cynefin Framework and Col. John Boyd’s Maneuver Conflict Theory.?

Great LPPDE Virtual Summit coming up Thursday 9th of January, 1-3:45pm GMT. Come and learn from / exchange ideas and knowledge with: Dirk Holste, Think Flow – Advancing Hardware Development: A Learning-Centric Approach to Drive Innovation Virpi Rowe, WikiAgile – Revolutionizing Product Development with MobAI Fredrik Viljesj?, We Are Movement – Engineering, Communication, and Automation: Accelerating Learning in Product Development ?#innovation?#lean?#development?#culture?#creative?#lppde?#management?more info on?www.lppde.org

Great LPPDE Virtual Summit coming up Thursday 5th of December, 1-5pm GMT. Come and learn from / exchange ideas and knowledge with: Bj?rn Westerberg, Westmount Consulting AB – Balancing Act: Are Modern Frameworks in Product Development Overshadowing Individual Technical Skills? Maria Jondelius, Scania – Focused Teams to Create Fast Improvements Sandra McCabe., NFG EUROPE (NSG GROUP) – Continuous Improvement of Development Lead-time Christer Lundh, AUFERO – Ways R&D Managers Get the Engineers to Learn Faster, Thus More ?#innovation?#lean?#development?#culture?#creative?#lppde?#management?more info on?www.lppde.org