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  What three lean conferences taught us in 2026

  The best results in successful organizations rarely come from people working harder. They come from capability: people who understand the direction, have the skills and authority to improve their ...

  Carl Wadmark 26 Oct 2026 7 min read

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  The AI Productivity Paradox: Why AI Needs Operational Excellence to Pay Off

  An opinion piece in Dagens industri by Joel Sunnehall and Mikael Cato recently put words to a concern we share. Their argument was that AI changes the organisation of work, responsibilities and ...

  Niklas Modig and Joacim Harrby 26 Oct 2026 15 min read

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  What Is a Transformation Management System (TMS)?

  In this article we aim to define what a Transformation Management System is, what the core functions are, how to evaluate one, and what it takes to successfully implement it for your organization.

  Carl Wadmark 1 Oct 2026 12 min read

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  How Catchball Makes Strategy Land From Plan to Ownership

  Part 3 of a series on flow-oriented strategy execution. Read Part 1: Flow as your truth teller and Read Part 2: From Truth to Action. Most leadership teams spend weeks building a plan and a single ...

  Fredrik Fjellstedt 8 Sep 2026 9 min read

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  From Truth to Action: How the Bowler Chart Turns Flow Into Results

  Part 2 of 2 in a series on flow-oriented strategy execution. Read Part 1: Flow as your truth teller. In the first part of this series, I described a meeting where a CEO and his leadership team ...

  Fredrik Fjellstedt 8 Jun 2026 7 min read

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  Flow Efficiency: The CFO’s Hidden Lever for Financial Performance

  Most CFOs treat lead time as an operations problem. I did too, until I started noticing what it was quietly doing to our working capital, our headcount, and our margin. It turns out flow efficiency ...

  Johanna Walsh 7 May 2026 4 min read

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  Flow as Your Truth Teller

  Many organizations think they are progressing well when everyone is busy and initiatives are moving. Fewer clearly understand how much actually makes it all the way through to a result. That ...

  Fredrik Fjellstedt 8 Apr 2026 5 min read

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  The Impact on Lead Time When Quality Is Right

  Long lead times for customer quotes were seen as a capacity problem, but were in fact a flow problem. Joacim Harrby shares the story of how one company moved from frustration and unpredictable ...

  Joacim Harrby 19 Feb 2026 7 min read

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  Eliminating Silos Starts With Improving Handover Quality

  When handovers are unclear, incomplete, or open to interpretation, work slows down and frustration builds up. This article is based on a real-world case from operations and follows one team as they ...

  Joacim Harrby 6 Feb 2026 8 min read

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  No Plan Survives the Grey Zone

  Continuous Improvement is about learning your way through uncertainty. A skill set we need to acquire through practice and experience. The moment we step beyond what we already know, our plans start ...

  Fredrik Fjellstedt 22 Jan 2026 6 min read

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  Insight #01 - What is Continuous Improvement?

  I've been researching about lean and operational excellence, and especially the Toyota Production System, for more than 20 years. There are a lot of interesting questions within this area. Today I'm ...

  Niklas Modig 14 Jan 2026 6 min read

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  Daily management – a misunderstood concept?

  Daily management is, in my experience, a misunderstood concept in modern operations. It is often treated as a fixed routine, a short meeting at the same time every day. But the real question is not ...

  Joacim Harrby 30 Nov 2025 4 min read