Lean Management Michigan Operations 
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Levine was an early proponent of agile and is a veteran of systems change and technology management. I’ve spent my career doing large-scale high impact technology management for major US institutions. Before I wrote my first book I spent a few weeks at a University of Michigan seminar on lean product development.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
You may have read my previous posts about the Lean LaunchPad class taught at Stanford , Berkeley, Columbia , Caltech and for the National Science Foundation. That resulted in a new process for Search: Customer Development + traditional product management/Waterfall Engineering. He called it the “Lean Startup.”.
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Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. To continually innovate, companies need to operate at startup speed and cycle time much longer their 20 th century counterparts did.
Steve Blank
JUNE 29, 2009
I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. I was met by a very apologetic manager who said, “We’ve been trying to get a hold of you for the last week. The manager of the training department who hired you wasn’t authorized to do so – and he’s been fired.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 30, 2010
We have structural employment issues : The official unemployment rate in the US is hovering just below 10% but “true” unemployment is much higher when you account for those that have stopped looking or taken part-time employment and in key states like California and Michigan we’re downright hurting.
Board Effect
DECEMBER 7, 2022
When mission creep becomes palpable, employees and volunteers may lose faith in the nonprofit, and the management could face a sudden employee turnover problem. The term mission creep originated with military operations where military leaders decided to shift operations to adapt to new information or changing circumstances.
Steve Blank
MAY 18, 2009
We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. It’s why all of you operated so well in the unpredictable environment that all startups face.” the manager followed us still yelling.
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