Manage your team like a factory because you want discipline, predictability, rhythm. Manage like a factory because you care about speed, quality, and waste.

Your innovation team is a factory. Hopefully not just a factory of meetings and emails. Hopefully not just a software factory. Your collaborative team is an agreement factory.

Your customers and employees have enough negative experiences and surprises. With a methodology that enforces collaboration and elegance, you can create positive surprises. Build Moments That Matter.

Three metaphors give structure to the book. The metaphor of a factory shapes the Why. The metaphor of an Asset Portfolio - a documentation inventory forms the What. The metaphor of the Performing Arts shapes the How of the Innovation Factory.

Which of your culture traits can you trace to impacting your waste? Consider whiplash, noise, inauthenticity, idle work, idle worker, Reply All’s, Backlog, last-minute cancellations, too many cooks, unused talent, and mismatched collaboration and competition. Fix your culture. Fix your Waste.

Which of your culture traits can you trace to impacting your quality? Consider purpose, defects, favoritism, loyalty, fairness, fear, franticness, task conflict, personality conflict, career security, job security, optimizing globally, optimizing locally. Fix your culture. Fix your Quality.

Which of your culture traits can you trace to impacting your speed? Consider trust, ambiguity, interruptions, fatigue, burnout, bottlenecks, egos, hero mentality, simplicity, complexity, silos, bureaucracy, meeting gridlock, and email overload. Fix your culture. Fix your Speed.

Innovation, methodology, projects, processes, documentation … organizations don’t pursue these things for the sake of themselves. Organizations pursue them for the sake of customer value and sustainable profitability. The Economics of Innovation has some common decisions and common mistakes. This blog post explains the most common.

Your organization might not literally be a factory, but you should manage it like one. You care about all the same things: speed, quality, waste, and more! Avoid abandonment and chaos. Pursue movement and rhythm in your methodology and culture.

Which of your culture traits can you trace to impacting your vigilance? Upfront rigor has a different cost than procrastinated quality. Choose Prepare over Repair.

Which of your culture traits can you trace to impacting your variability? Consider how your innovation team writes. Apply your exotic word choice in marketing and poetry, not with your core innovation team. Controlled variability through these five writing strategies makes your team focused and fast.

Which of your culture traits can you trace to impacting your automation? Consider whether technology and data is your master or your servant. Consider whether Technology runs your business or if Business Runs Your Business.