Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI): Recent submissions

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    • The Culture of innovation Styles: Are our Corporate Cultures Tuned for Innovation? 

      Czaika, Ellen; Valerdi, Ricardo (2009)
      Systems engineering work is requiring increasing collaboration among various enterperprises, nations, and individuals to innovate to meet the comlex needs of large numbers of stakeholders. This indicates a need to better ...

    • Principles of Enterprise Systems 

      Nightingale, Deborah (2009-06-15)
      The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) through its Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI) research team has been conducting research and facilitating enterprise-level transformations in large complex sociotechnical ...

    • Zen in the Art of Cost Estimation 

      Valerdi, Ricardo (2008)
      Engineering cannot wait until all phenomena are explained. Engineers may work effectively, often for centuries, with heuristics. This paper provides over thirty heuristics that have been inspired by the development and ...