We are very pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Jim Spohrer and Mark Florman to our advisory board.
Based in London, Mark is Chairman & CEO of the strategic consultancy firm Time Partners Ltd., a corporate finance firm advising PE firms, LPs and portfolio companies on strategy, capital rising and value creation.…
Our work on what was going to became Post-Lean Thinking began in 2014. In June of 2015 we released three papers and an e-book, summarizing what we had learned in our first ten years (2004-2014) as well as pointing to the future.…
After a decade focusing on redesigning modern knowledge-based organizations for breakthrough performance, three years ago we began an exciting new journey. We set out to understand how disruption by exponential technologies was invalidating essentially all industrial-era assumptions about organizations, innovation, jobs and governance.…
Keynote at the 2015 Smidig Conference in Oslo, Norway on November 2, 2015.
While the first papers on Post-Lean Thinking were released a few months earlier, in June of that year, this keynote was the first one where Frode discussed Post-Lean and post-industrial management ideas.
Today we are releasing three new white papers:
These papers should be of particular interest to those interested in the future evolution of Lean, and also to executives in mature organizations who wish to improve innovation and retain entrepreneurial employees.…
Some context (added August 2, 2020):
Prior to our work on post-industrial management science, which began in 2014, we were the Lean Systems Institute and worked on large-scale organizational design and redesign efforts in knowledge-intensive organizations. The original Lean methodology for Toyota was a powerful approach to build learning organizations.…