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From Insight to Strategy to Innovation – while standing at the Toyworld Checkout
Listen up lean and agile thinkers. This is a simple illustration of the kind of things that make innovation and strategy easy – a gift from someone on a toy shop counter that probably earns less than...
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EXCLUSIVE! Australian incubator launches Airbed.com, hot new social travel...
1 April 2012 Luna Tractor has been leaked advance details of the hottest new internet property to emerge from The Y-Axis, Melbourne’s most successful incubator and startup investor, proof positive of...
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Luna USA Field Trip: Space Shuttle – a monumental engineering achievement
In our YOW! 2011 talk we discussed the space shuttle era that began in the late 1970s – an era of USA and Soviet rivalry based foolishly on strategic parity (‘our goal is just to have what they...
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Luna USA Field Trip: Wright Brothers – less money, less resources, more...
The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington DC, a treasure trove of lean and agile lessons for Luna Tractorites. Simon Sinek has a great talk on the rivalry at play in the early part of the 20th...
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Luna USA Field trip: more skunkworks reflections
Like so many exhibits in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, this plane is not a replica, a copy, or a later model. This actual plane is the very first jet fighter produced by Lockheed Martin’s...
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Luna USA Field Trip: lessons for the future of retail in Australia
If I had a dollar for every whinging column-inch where our Australian newspapers copy and paste press releases from Myer, David Jones and Harvey Norman’s PR departments, blaming the dreaded interweb...
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WHY ?
At various times I’ve heard Fiona, Nigel and myself telling people “If you only adopt one Agile practice make it the retrospectives” … But why ? The boards are useful, but they are really just give you...
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Ground Hog Day
I just saw this graphic of American Print Newspaper Advertising (adjusted for inflation) and had a strong sense of deja vu: Exhibit A: Newspaper Ad Revenue in the US Exhibit B: US Recorded Music...
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Agile, Lean and Systems Thinking – What’s the Deal?
A Luna Tractor client asked me the other day, “What’s the relationship between Agile and Lean? How do you know which to choose?” It’s a great question and the answer is actually pretty simple: most of...
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Is the impact of Agile just a Hawthorne Effect ?
The Hawthorne Effect is a human behavioural theory drawn by various social scientists from trials undertaken between 1927 and 1932 at Western Electric’s Hawthorne Works. The trials found that...
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