Tag Archives: Lean

Luna USA Field Trip: lessons for the future of retail in Australia

Posted on June 11, 2012 by

If I had a dollar for every whinging column-inch where our Australian newspapers copy and paste press releases from Myer, David Jones and Harvey Norman’s PR departments, blaming the dreaded interweb for the end-of-days in our retail stores, I’d be … Continue reading →

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Command and Control – is there an Option?

Posted on January 27, 2012 by

Sorry. Lean nerd joke. Read this if you don’t get it - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Freedom-Command-Control-Better-Make/dp/0954618300

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Great Engineering Lasts – The U-2 Spy Plane and the SR 71 Blackbird.

Posted on December 11, 2011 by

We spoke at YOW this year on the topic of innovation and agile over 6 decades, highlighting the Agile and Lean principles we see in space and engineering projects. From the 1930s we talked about the Cabinet War rooms and … Continue reading →

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A new orbit – thoughts on leaving Lonely Planet

Posted on September 13, 2011 by

Last Friday my work at Lonely Planet was completed. The new website team, led by half a dozen energetic founders from Melbourne, re-started in London after an intense 100 day transition program that was judged a great success. The opportunity … Continue reading →

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Top 10 agile and lean resources

Posted on July 26, 2011 by

I’ve just written a friend an email with our curated list of resources to inspire teams to start working in a more modern way. Looking at it, I think it makes a half decent blog post – so here it … Continue reading →

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People are still the best computers

Posted on March 10, 2011 by

Apocryphal or not, this story from the science of space-flight does provide us with one of my favourite quotes, from German rocket scientist turned US space program engineer Wernher von Braun. Wikipedia does a fine job summarising his life and … Continue reading →

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Why Luna Tractor?

Posted on March 9, 2011 by

While the Americans were busy landing men on the moon for a few days at a time and playing a little golf the Russian space agency was taking a different approach in their race to the moon.  They built and … Continue reading →

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