Kanban for Design and Innovation

See where Kanban can take you while focusing on upstream design. This course focuses on advanced practices and cadences. With upstream Kanban, users can engage stakeholders from different organizational levels and departments in idea generation and make decisions to invest, shelve or discard ideas. Demand can be properly managed and shaped. The course offers hands-on exercises that allow users to practice setting up an upstream system.

Learn to:

• Take a proactive, rational, and well-communicated approach to continuous improvement.​
• Achieve higher levels of both internal and external customer satisfaction, sustainably.​
• Outline a path to increase organizational maturity, including how to overcome resistance to change.​
• Implement simple and effective cross-boundary coordination.
• Use proven tools and methods to increase capability, remove delays, reduce variability and manage bottlenecks.​
• Develop an understanding of evolutionary change and avoid the tendency for pushing disruptive, presumptive solutions.​
• Effectively scale workflow agility without changing job titles, and organization structures, or causing other disruptions.​
• Increase skills and implementation of the 6 general practices of Kanban.