Utilizing Lean Practices in the Enterprise - Matthew Fremont, Senior Technical Consultant

1. Lean Enterprise

2. Buzzwords?
• Lean Startup
• Fail Fast
• Minimum Viable Product
• Pivot

3. Life’s too short to build
something nobody wants.
– Ash Maurya, Running Lean

5. The Important Questions
• What urgent problem am I trying to solve?
• Why is my solution better than existing alternatives?
• Who is the customer that will value this solution?
• How do I reach this customer?
• How can I build and scale a successful business?

6. Hypothesis-driven
• Identify assumptions.
• Prioritize risks.
• Formulate testable hypotheses for biggest risks.
• Test the hypotheses in the real world.
• Evolve the product and plans.

7. Data
Build – Measure – Learn
Product
Ideas
& Hypotheses
Build
Measure
Learn

8. GE DuratHon Battery

9. Lean Context
• High risk and uncertainty.
• Need for flexibility to adapt to an evolving understanding of customer
needs and a rapidly-changing market.
• Nurturing innovation.

10. Questions?
Thoughts?
Where would this benefit your
business the most?