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Intro

Then 2 come along at once!

We aim to get back to weekly newsletters with a digest of interesting resources. This one is no different. Hopefully there is something to interest everyone in this issue. If not do let us know. I love a good canvas and there is a couple of examples here.

News

What executives are saying about the future of hybrid work | McKinsey

Organizations are clear that postpandemic working will be hybrid. After that, the details get hazy. In the postpandemic future of work, nine out of ten organizations will be combining remote and on-site working, according to a new McKinsey survey of 100 executives across industries and geographies.1 The survey confirms that productivity and customer satisfaction have increased during the pandemic.

Events

Success Labs - Engage Process User Meet Up Tickets, Multiple Dates | Eventbrite

Come to Success Labs and find out more about how you can get the most out of the software and learn new improvement approaches too. About this event Come to success labs and accelerate your improvement journey. Learn more about continuous improvement and how you can deliver it. Network with your peers working in improvement across the country and across the sectors.

Come and ask us anything we will be doing live Q&A at every session. What are your issues maybe the community can help.

Join the user community if you haven't already or have a look at our latest blogs

Virtual Process Improvement - An Essential Tool for 2021 and Beyond Tickets, Multiple Dates | Eventbrite

Do you have processes? You need to improve and change them? You use something like Visio to map your processes? Have a look at this: About this event Act fast each session will only have 12 tickets available.

A process map is a planning and management tool that visually describes the flow of work. Using process mapping software, maps show a series of events that produce an end result. The process map is also a great way to visualize the path of a workflow and can be used to help employees better understand the relationship between their work and the impact it has on the overall organization. It is a powerful tool for change.

Lean People Systems You get the culture you deserve - webinar

I still recall the conversations with our Japanese sensei during the early phase of a lean transformation at United Technologies. Each question on sustainability would be punctuated with “do more kaizen, develop kaizen mind” over and over again, through an interpreter of course.

My sensei was preaching to the choir. I saw the power of Lean, or at least so I thought. What could be more important than securing the future of our company through the indisputable and significant productivity improvements we were seeing at the end of each five-day kaizen event?

Lean

Business Model Canvas Explained | A Step-by-Step Guide with Examples

The Easy Guide to the Business Model Canvas

Got a new business idea, but don’t know how to put it to work? Want to improve your existing business model? Overwhelmed by writing your business plan? There is a one-page technique that can provide you the solution you are looking for, and that’s the business model canvas.

In this guide, you’ll have the business model canvas explained, along with steps on how to create one. All business model canvas examples in the post can be edited online.

An Introduction to Lean Canvas. As an entrepreneur, one of the most… | by Steve Mullen | Medium

An Introduction to Lean Canvas As an entrepreneur, one of the most important tasks you can perform is getting your idea(s) out from your head into a tangible format so that you can communicate that with others. In the past, this usually meant a well-researched business plan, that would usually take weeks (more like months) to create. I turn to the Lean Canvas to help me quickly formulate possible business models, product launches, campaigns and variations of, and communicate this with my stakeholders for my Lead Flow Method work. Having the Lean Canvas as a visual guide made this part “communicating the model/idea” so much more effective — and I think the most valuable function of the tool.

Serving Up Lean with a Southern-Fried Kick

The founders of Haven Hot Chicken believed their home state of Connecticut was ready for an authentic southern dining experience. They saw the success of hot fried chicken restaurants in the Nashville area and wanted to introduce a similar concept to the Northeast. Drawing on their experience in the corporate world, the Haven Hot Chicken leaders knew that a good idea would only make it as far as their ability to execute. That required a steadfast focus on the production process.

Lean Performance Management System Case - Lean Enterprise Academy

Introduction In my recent blog post “What is a Lean Management System?” we discussed the need for two key management systems in a lean organisation: One for Performance and one for Improvement. In this post we run through the steps required to develop performance management through a Lean management system example.

To recap, a Performance Management System is all about maintaining a standard level of performance for a process or activity. It uses a structured, connected, visual approach to monitor the performance, highlighting issues and reacting to them in a timely manner.

Design Thinking

The Good Service Scale —

The Good Service Scale Assess the quality of your service using the 15 Principles of Good Service Design

The Good Service Scale will help you and your team understand how well your service is performing for your users, where it needs to be improved, and build a clear a plan to improve it

Ideas

Kate Raworth: We need a new understanding of what the economy is and what it’s for | Nesta

Kate Raworth is a renegade economist passionate about making economics fit for the 21st century. Her best-selling book Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist has been translated into seven languages and was long-listed for the 2017 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year award.

She teaches at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, where she is a Senior Visiting Research Associate, and is also a Senior Associate of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and an advisor to the Global Challenges programme of the Stockholm School of Economics.

Here Kate discusses people-centred economics and environmental integrity in an age of mass commercialism.

Community Engagement Playbook Discovery · communitiesuk/community-engagement-playbook Wiki · GitHub

Throughout COVID-19 local authorities have needed to find new and different ways to interact, consult and engage with citizens. The Local Digital Collaboration Unit (LDCU) at the Ministry for Housing Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) commissioned a discovery around how a playbook could capture and share these new practices so that local authorities can learn from each other.

Video

(204) Lean Canvas Intro - Uber example 🚘 - YouTube

This is a step-by-step guide to the lean canvas - a tool to validate your startup business model from the ground up. 🔹Learn more about the lean canvas: https://bit.ly/2ADIygV 🔸Review lean canvas examples for Amazon, Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Airbnb: https://bit.ly/2AzTCM2 🔹More product discovery tools: https://bit.ly/2MuZQ2s

Lean Canvas was designed by Ash Maurya, based on the Business Model Canvas designed by Alex Osterwalder, https://strategyzer.com/, licensed under CC BY SA 3.0.

In this video, we delve into the lean canvas concept - a popular solution for business founders to evaluate their ideas and pave the way to success.

The emphasis is laid on essential points including: ✅ what is the lean canvas ✅ how it differs from the business model canvas ✅ what are the key metrics in lean canvas, etc.