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More articles by Dr. Klaus Leopold. Page 13 of 16.
If organizational change is to be something more than putting a fresh coat of paint on the company building, you have no choice but to take people along with you on this journey of change. At the end of the day it is people who make change possible, who drive it forward or hinder it. […]
Read articleLean Kanban Central Europe is always worth a visit. This year the fabulous event took place in Hamburg and I was presenting the Kanban Flight Levels Model. Here’s the 30 minutes video of my session:
Read articleThis year’s Lean Kanban Central Europe Conference took place in Hamburg, DE. Klaus participated with a talk about the Kanban Flight Levels.
Read articleIn my article “The logic of failure in improvement initiatives” I stated that between 60 and 80 percent of change initiatives in companies fail. Here we should ask ourselves what it was that actually failed? What is the object to change? What is an organisation? We can identify very quickly an organ
Read articleEveryone is talking about improvement, change, change management, change leadership, etc. But what does these change-related terms really mean? What is it that has to be changed? Organizations? Individuals? Cultures? What actually takes place during the change process? What does one have to take int
Read articleIt only took less than 1.5 years and the first edition of the book “Kanban in der IT” from Klaus Leopold and Sigi Kaltenecker is sold out. Now we proudly present the second edition of the book!
Read articleWith very little effort, Kanban can change a lot. I witness this often when I visit a company again weeks or months after introducing Kanban. However, I also see that I get contacted by companies where the „Kanban pilots“ have ditched the aircraft in the swirling desert sands. “We have a board, WIP
Read articleA Kanban system is just so friendly and shows us where problems arise. Combined with WIP limits it is even friendlier and even tells us that we should solve the problem NOW before starting new work. Wonderful! And this is precisely what many companies do – they solve problems. I try to convince comp
Read articleBefore you start with Kanban it is important to decide where you want to embed it in the overall organizational context. Sounds like an easy question, however, I learned that it is not always so easy to answer – especially in bigger organizations. Therefore, I developed the Kanban flight levels mode
Read articleAuthors of this article are Sigi Kaltenecker and Klaus Leopold. We decided to publish this article on klausleopold.com altough it is the output of our joint work. We are currently working on a solution of how to publish our joint work in the future. Like last year, this year’s Kanban Leadership Retr
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