Lean Blog Interviews
Ben Bensaou: From Lean Production to ”Built to Innovate”
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Professor at INSEAD, author of "Built to Innovate" Show notes: https://www.leanblog.org/434 My guest for Episode #434 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Ben Bensaou. He is an INSEAD professor and author of Built to Innovate: Essential Practices to Wire Innovation into Your Company's DNA. Ben earned his PhD at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where I was an MBA student. He was part of Jim Womack‘s research team that studied the auto industry and that group coined the term “Lean.” He's joining us from Kobe, Japan, where he is on sabbatical. Today, we discuss topics and questions including: I'm curious to hear your memories and reflections of the Womack research era “Japanese management model”? – how would you describe that? Jim Womack episode on “Machine Revisited” Labor / talent shortages — similar challenge in Europe or Japan now? Was there anything from that research that wasn't widely understood by readers and business leaders? “It's a mindset” not tools, techniques, and gimmicks Parall