The Management Brief | Lean Improvement Group Helps Appliance Maker Reshore Products
Josh Howell, LEI President, and Mark Reich, LEI Chief Engineer Strategy, talk with Rich Calvaruso, Senior Director of the Lean Management Office for GE Appliances. Rich — with GE for 36 years and the ...
16 Sep 202550min
TPS Taken to Companies across the UK
Simon Rowley and Julian Ball join Josh Howell, LEI President, and Mark Reich, LEI Chief Engineer Strategy, and continue this month’s discussion about the role of continuous improvement (CI) groups in ...
9 Sep 202549min
A Toyota Take on Taking TPS to Others
Josh Howell and Mark Reich, LEI President and Chief Engineer Strategy, respectively, speak with Jamie Bonini, President of the Toyota Production System Support Center (TSSC), a not-for-profit corporat...
2 Sep 202547min
Innovation as a Core Capability: Sebastian Fixson on Why Leaders Need Lean Product and Process Development
In this episode of the WLEI Podcast, we speak with Sebastian Fixson, PhD, of Babson College, on mentoring the next generation of leaders in lean product and process development (LPPD). Sebastian is th...
21 Aug 202524min
Learnings of a Lean Pioneer
Jim Lancaster, Owner and CEO of Lantech, talks with Josh Howell, LEI President, and Mark Reich, LEI Chief Engineer Strategy, about his lean journey and the decades-long transformation at his packaging...
22 Juli 202544min
Tech Founder Mari Zumbro on Building High Trust Online Communities and AI in Product Development
In this episode of the WLEI Podcast, we continue our series on AI in product development with an interview with Mari Zumbro, Co-Founder and COO of the tech startup Filament. An active participant in t...
17 Juli 202529min
Transforming as a Problem-Solver
Josh Howell and Mark Reich, LEI President and Chief Engineer Strategy, respectively, speak with Scott Heydon, former VP of Global Strategy at Starbucks, McKinsey & Co. consultant, and a Senior Lean Co...
15 Juli 202554min
AI to Empower People: Fabrice Bernhard on Using AI to Improve Product Development
In this episode of The Design Brief, we speak with Fabrice Bernhard. Fabrice is cofounder and chief technology officer of Theodo, a leading tech consultancy in Europe, and coauthor of The Lean Tech Ma...
10 Juli 202518min
