A short introduction to Lean Thinking, based on my personal interpretation of the approach!

1. Nikos Palavitsinis,Agro-Know

2.  a production practice
that considers the
expenditure of resources
for any goal other than
the creation of value for
the end customer to be
wasteful, and thus a
target for elimination

3.  1884 - First company to be operated by rules
similar to today’s corporations
 Dutch East India Company
 1908 - Harvard Business School was the first
program in the world to offer the Master of
Business Administration degree.

4.  For some 80 years, students were educated
on how to “run” a company
 Marketing, management, logistics, human
resources, finance, etc.
 But for companies that were already big
 What happens with smaller ones?

5.  Start-ups are NOT smaller versions of a
bigger company…
 As such, they should not be trying to create
value with the same techniques or tools
 They operate in a highly risky, ever changing
environment, with limited resources

8.  It all started with a course given by Steven
Blank
 And it evolved into…
 Business Model Generation, Alex Osterwalder
 The Lean Start-up, Eric Ries
 Running Lean, Ash Maurya

10.  A start-up is a human institution designed to
create something new in the face of
uncertainty with limited resources to do so
 Learning does NOT justify failure…
 If you cannot measure it, I don’t care…
 Getting out of the building is good…

11.  AK is a start-up…
 Limited resources – check
 Great uncertainty – check
 Small group of talented humans – check
 We are kind of doing lean already…

12.  Events
 Landing pages
 PAT
 Projects
 Collections
 Trainings
 Etc…

14. Stop Learning, StartThinking!

15.  LeanAKademy – Eight 4-hour meetings in a
two month period, working on Lean…
 You will develop your idea
 Find the problems & test them
 Pivot your idea if needed
 Price them & demo them
 Build a product and launch it