Category: Innovation
Breaking Brexit
Stop Talking … Start Doing … and lets get ‘Breaking Brexit’! Say we are a small rural business in a sleepy town or village just keeping pace with rural living … chances are Brexit (Britain Exiting the EU) are not top of our day to day business priorities let aloneRead More
The internet of everything?
I’ve been thinking about ‘IoT’ v2.0 … aka the internet of everything all networked together. ‘IoT’ has the potential to network technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Automation, Robotics and Nano construction, etc… into an exciting new network of everything. These things include networking self-driving cars, self-heating homes, self-fillingRead More
Lean is Green not Mean
Lean is Green not mean … But ‘Kaikaku’ is radical man! Kaizen v Kaikaku Respect For The Planet If anyone reads any of my rantz, a common theme in my thinking is ‘Respect for people and the planet’, the ‘Planet’ side of lean is both green and sustainable.Read More
I got 5 years for Agile in Manufacturing
I was reading a LinkedIn post by C Keith Horner in which he ponders the application of the Agile framework in Agile Manufacturing. This post is inspired by pretty much the same inspiration and question that has haunted me for at least the last 5 years as I serve myRead More
Rural Ireland Must … “Innovate Or Die!”
Rural Ireland must … Innovate Or Die!. This may sound a little over dramatic until you make a connection as I did recently. I was conducting research for a thought experiment which forms the basis for my masters. My thesis is framed as a question, “How can lean innovation createRead More
How Constraints Create Space for Innovation – A Social Context
Constraints Create Space for Innovation I was reading a post by Ash Maurya the best selling author of the excellent book ‘Running Lean’. In his new offering ‘Scaling Lean’ he takes the next steps beyond ideation to his vision for scaling up start-ups. His linkedIn post ‘How Constraints CreateRead More
Is That Big New Idea New?
Ever ask yourself, “Is my big new idea really new?” – If your always coming up with big new ideas one of the first questions you may ask yourself is, “I wonder if my big idea is a new idea?”. When researching my next new big idea I like toRead More
Unemployment a symptom or a cause? (Part 1 of 3)
Have You Read ? ( Introduction To This Series Of Posts ) The First Of Three Problems: Our journey begins in my rural home county of Tipperary in Ireland. Our travels will take us to our 3rd of three problems and the home of lean thinking in Japan. Japan isRead More
Pencil and paper – under value at your risk …
I was reading an article by my daughter Eiren McLoughlin1 about “Depths of Design” and it starting me thinking about the importance of keeping things simple with the least path of resistance to the creative flow in design. I posted a short version of this article as a responsive commentRead More
Defining a ‘High-Potential SME’
I am not usually one for reading notices or advertisements but the following Article grabbed my attention because I perceive myself as a Lean/Frugal Collaborative Innovation evangelist with more than a passing interest in its role in small and micro enterprises (social or commercial). The article promotes a workshopRead More