--- title: Lean Tech & AI Journal description: Weekly insights on lean thinking applied to technology transformation. Articles, webinars, and resources from lean practitioners. --- [![LeanAI mark](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/raw_assets/public/tech-lean-org/images/lean_AI_logo_wht.png) LeanAI](https://tech.lean.org/) Work With Us expand\_more [groups Lean AI for Teams Team problem solving, with AI in the method. For CI and ops leaders.](https://tech.lean.org/lean-ai-for-teams) [account\_tree Lean AI for Value Streams Your ideal value stream, reached one target condition at a time. For value-stream owners.](https://tech.lean.org/lean-ai-for-value-streams) [Start on your own smart\_toy Lean AI Dojo Free coaching tools arrow\_outward](https://tech.lean.org/dojo) [Technology leaders hub Not forward deployed. 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Emerging standards for lean in technology and AI, from the companies and coaches testing the way forward. mail ## Get the Journal by email Join 30,000+ practitioners getting new articles as they publish. No spam. Editor's pick ## [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/Revisiting%20the%20Toyota%20Production%20System%20in%20the%20Age%20of%20AI%20Coding%20Agents-1-LinkedIn.png) November 11, 2026 Revisiting the Toyota Production System in the Age of AI Coding Agents Software has borrowed a surprising amount from manufacturing. Not from manufacturing in the sense of “let’s put programmers on an assembly line.” Thankfully, we’ve tried enough variations of that idea already. Read the article arrow\_forward](https://tech.lean.org/journal/revisiting-the-toyota-production-system-in-the-age-of-ai-coding-agents) Recent ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/What%20the%20History%20of%20Lean%20Can%20Teach%20Us%20About%20AI%20Adoption-2-Linkedin%20banner.png) What the history of Lean can teach us about AI adoption October 28, 2026](https://tech.lean.org/journal/what-the-history-of-lean-can-teach-us-about-ai-adoption) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/Surfacing%20invisible%20work%20is%20half%20the%20job.%20Steve%20Pereira%20shows%20how%20to%20make%20hidden%20work%20visible%20and%20build%20the%20response%20mechanisms%20that%20turn%20it%20into%20acti-1-LinkedIn.png) You Can’t Improve What You Don’t Commit To October 14, 2026](https://tech.lean.org/journal/you-cant-improve-what-you-dont-commit-to) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/You%20Can%E2%80%99t%20Improve%20What%20You%20Can%E2%80%99t%20See-1-LinkedIn.png) You Can’t Improve What You Can’t See: Why Knowledge Work Could Get Worse Before It Gets Better September 30, 2026](https://tech.lean.org/journal/you-cant-improve-what-you-cant-see-why-knowledge-work-could-get-worse-before-it-gets-better) Every article ## Browse the archive search search Search ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/Revisiting%20the%20Toyota%20Production%20System%20in%20the%20Age%20of%20AI%20Coding%20Agents-1-LinkedIn.png) November 11, 2026 Revisiting the Toyota Production System in the Age of AI Coding Agents Software has borrowed a surprising amount from manufacturing. Not from manufacturing in the sense of “let’s put programmers on an assembly line.” Thankfully, we’ve tried enough variations of that idea already. Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/revisiting-the-toyota-production-system-in-the-age-of-ai-coding-agents) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/What%20the%20History%20of%20Lean%20Can%20Teach%20Us%20About%20AI%20Adoption-2-Linkedin%20banner.png) October 28, 2026 What the history of Lean can teach us about AI adoption AI model capabilities are advancing rapidly, but adoption inside established organizations is moving much more slowly. In hindsight, I don’t think that is much of a surprise. Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/what-the-history-of-lean-can-teach-us-about-ai-adoption) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/Surfacing%20invisible%20work%20is%20half%20the%20job.%20Steve%20Pereira%20shows%20how%20to%20make%20hidden%20work%20visible%20and%20build%20the%20response%20mechanisms%20that%20turn%20it%20into%20acti-1-LinkedIn.png) October 14, 2026 You Can’t Improve What You Don’t Commit To How to See Invisible Work (and Wrangle It) In Part 1 of this two-part series, we established a core operational truth: you can’t improve what you can’t see. But surfacing invisible work is only half the battle. ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/you-cant-improve-what-you-dont-commit-to) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/You%20Can%E2%80%99t%20Improve%20What%20You%20Can%E2%80%99t%20See-1-LinkedIn.png) September 30, 2026 You Can’t Improve What You Can’t See: Why Knowledge Work Could Get Worse Before It Gets Better Invisible systems of knowledge work are likely to produce more slop than value Lean thinking has consistently championed standardizing work, placing local efforts in a global context, and surfacing problems so the ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/you-cant-improve-what-you-cant-see-why-knowledge-work-could-get-worse-before-it-gets-better) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/40%20hours%2030%20mins-1-LinkedIn.png) September 16, 2026 From 40 Hours to 30 Minutes: How AI Will Remake the Shopfloor and Empower Workers A month ago, I spoke with an engineer who spent 40 hours drafting a meticulous time study of a 20-hour custom fabrication job. He painstakingly analyzed 18 timelapse videos, at times scrubbing frame by frame, to mark ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/from-40-hours-to-30-minutes-how-ai-will-remake-the-shopfloor-and-empower-workers) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/Deployed%20or%20Developed-1-llinkedin%20The%20Engineer%20You%20Develop.png) September 2, 2026 Deployed or Developed: The Engineer You Develop A forward deployed engineer is dropped into your domain. A forward developed one is built out of it. This is the final part of a series1 on the forward deployed engineer. Part 1 followed the money into the role and ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/deployed-or-developed-the-engineer-you-develop) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/Deployed%20or%20Developed-1-LinkedIn-We%20Have%20Seen%20This%20Play%20Before.png) August 26, 2026 Deployed or Developed: We Have Seen This Play Before The choice between renting expertise and building it is a century-old decision, and both experiments have run at scale. Only one of them compounded. Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/deployed-or-developed-we-have-seen-this-play-before) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/Deployed%20or%20Developed%20The%20Purple%20Unicorn%20Problem-2-LinkedIn.png) August 19, 2026 Deployed or Developed: The Purple Unicorn Problem Everyone is hiring for a skill set that barely exists. The capability you need is already on your payroll. This first article of a three-part series\[1\] examines the role of forward deployed engineers (how they work and ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/deployed-or-developed-the-purple-unicorn-problem) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/Toyota%E2%80%99s%20Investment%20in%20AI%20Capability-1-LinkedIn.png) August 6, 2026 Toyota’s Investment in AI Capability Toyota's AI strategy isn't a platform purchase. It's a bet on its own people. Inside the training, certification, and shop-floor communities building capability. Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/toyotas-investment-in-ai-capability) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/Prompting%20for%20Problem%20Solving-1-LinkedIn.png) July 22, 2026 Prompting for Problem Solving The PDCA loop that every lean person already knows also applies to working with a large language model (LLM), but with Prompt replacing Plan. The model does the Do. Check and Act stay mainly with you. Our previous ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/prompting-for-problem-solving) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/lean%20tech%20gene%20art%20tyson%20podcast-1-LinkedIn.png) July 8, 2026 Past, Present, and Future of Lean and AI Gene Kim, DevOps leader and co-author of Wiring the Winning Organization, joins Tyson Heaton, LEI Executive Director of LeanTech/AI, and Art Smalley, Toyota veteran and LEI advisor, for a lively, enlightening, and ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/past-present-and-future-of-lean-and-ai) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/Lean-tech-whos-thriving-1-LinkedIn-1.png) June 24, 2026 Who Thrives in the AI Workforce? Anthropic and OpenAI are following SpaceX and moving toward massive IPOs in the coming months. Meanwhile, college graduates are booing commencement speakers who even mention AI. At the University of Arizona this spring, ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/who-thrives-in-the-ai-workforce) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/Untitled%20-%20June%2016%2c%202026%20at%2016.18.49-1-LinkedIn.png) June 17, 2026 The Next Value Stream: What Lean Can Learn from the Internet Most organizations are still trying to apply AI to existing workflows: faster coding, faster document generation, faster analysis, faster search. This risks paving the cow path — making the existing process faster ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/the-next-value-stream-what-lean-can-learn-from-the-internet) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/Lean-Tech-PDCA-1-LinkedIn.png) May 27, 2026 Prompt, Do, Check, Act: The New PDCA Every lean person knows PDCA. Plan, Do, Check, Act. It is one of the most familiar disciplines in our field. Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/prompt-do-check-act-the-new-pdca) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/Lean-tecg-reengineering-1-LinkedIn.jpeg) May 13, 2026 The Reengineering Is Coming Leadership Negligence, Not Technology Failure, Sets the Stage for AI's Most Expensive Correction In 1987, Nobel laureate Robert Solow made an observation that still echoes: "You can see the computer age everywhere but ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/the-reengineering-is-coming) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/Art-smalley-second-brain-1-LinkedIn.png) April 29, 2026 The Strange New World of AI: My Second Brain Setup This article went from concept to published webpage on an afternoon walk. I gave my AI assistant the task from my phone, walked, stopped once on a park bench to review the draft and approve it, and pushed it live. ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/the-strange-new-world-of-ai-my-second-brain-setup) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/Lean-tech-ai-journal-toyota-software-1-LinkedIn-1.png) April 15, 2026 Insource What Matters: A Lesson from Toyota for Lean Practitioners in the Age of AI There is a moment in lean transformation work that almost every practitioner has experienced. You have made real progress on the floor, in the office, or in the clinic. Flow is improving. Waste is visible. People are ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/insource-what-matters-a-lesson-from-toyota-for-lean-practitioners-in-the-age-of-ai) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/Lean-tech-ai-journal-From%20Fiction%20to%20Navigation-1-LinkedIn.png) April 1, 2026 From Fiction to Navigation: Using Cynefin to Choose the Right Improvement Method In a recent Lean Tech & AI Journal article, I suggested that future-state thinking can quietly become fiction when applied in complex adaptive systems. Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/from-fiction-to-navigation-using-cynefin-to-choose-the-right-improvement-method) ### [![Man sitting next to A.I. robot](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/Lean%20AI%20Tech%20Wait%2c%20That%E2%80%99s%20My%20Job-2-LinkedIn.png) March 25, 2026 Wait, That's My Job | How AI Exposed the Organizational Immune System Nobody Wanted to Talk About AI isn't just disrupting work — it's exposing the organizational immune system. Tyson Heaton reveals who's blocking progress and who's quietly building it. Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/wait-thats-my-job) ### [![Audience and speakers at Lean Summit](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/Lean%20AI%20Tech%20Four%20Moments%20from%20the%202026%20Lean%20Summit%20that%20Stayed%20with%20Me-2-LinkedIn.png) March 18, 2026 Four Moments from the 2026 Lean Summit that Stayed with Me I hadn’t attended one of LEI’s lean conferences in over five years. The last one was right before the COVID outbreak shut everything down, and I was honestly curious about what I would find when I walked into the 2026 ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/four-moments-from-the-2026-lean-summit-that-stayed-with-me) ### [![screen shot of LeanTech website homepage](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/Untitled-1-LinkedIn.png) March 11, 2026 Lean Enterprise Institute Launches Formal LeanTech/AI Initiative A dedicated initiative to help organizations apply lean thinking and practice to the technology layer of their operations, including the design, deployment, and continuous improvement of AI-enabled systems. Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/lean-enterprise-institute-launches-formal-leantech/ai-initiative) ### [![shadows walking in a purple hallway with code displayed on walls](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/Lean-AI-Tech-When-Future-State-Becomes-Fiction-Lean-Complexity-and-the-Vector-Theory-of-Change-1-linkedin.png) March 4, 2026 When “Future State” Becomes Fiction: Lean, Complexity, and the Vector Theory of Change Lean practitioners have long been taught that improvement culminates in a designed “future state.” We map the current condition, identify waste and constraints, and then create a future-state value-stream map (VSM) that ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/when-future-state-becomes-fiction-lean-complexity-and-the-vector-theory-of-change-1) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/coffee.png) February 25, 2026 From Agile to Lean Tech: Theodo’s Journey to Scalable Learning The Bottom Line: For over 14 years, Theodo has explored what it truly means to apply lean thinking to software development — beyond agile frameworks. Its journey began with a failure that revealed the limits of blindly ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/from-agile-to-lean-tech-theodos-journey-to-scalable-learning) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/age.png) February 19, 2026 Lean in the Age of AI: Optimizing the Stream, Not the Coder In IT, we don't talk much about lean anymore. And for a long time, that made perfect sense. We didn't need to talk about it because we had successfully baked it into our systems. We adopted agile to tackle the waste of ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/lean-in-the-age-of-ai-optimizing-the-stream-not-the-coder) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/designing.png) February 11, 2026 Management: Designing the System Where People and AI Work Together In previous articles in this four-part series, we explored why the impact of AI varies so widely across organizations. The technology itself is increasingly accessible and powerful, yet results remain uneven. Some teams ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/management-designing-the-system-where-people-and-ai-work-together) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/devops.png) February 5, 2026 #LeanTech: Lean, Agile, and DevOps Leaders Will Gather to Discuss AI’s Role in Value Creation at Lean Summit THE BOTTOM LINE: People first, technology second. Most lean leaders remember to work from this principle, but it’s easy to forget if your organization is in the middle of a digital transformation or when new ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/leantech-lean-agile-and-devops-leaders-will-gather-to-discuss-ais-role-in-value-creation-at-lean-summit) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/Mapping.png) February 4, 2026 Value-Stream Mapping Is Your Missing AI Superpower The AI landscape shifted significantly in 2025, bringing valuable insights on implementation and application — along with the benefits that a lean tool — value-stream management — can provide for 2026. The State of AI ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/value-stream-mapping-is-your-missing-ai-superpower) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/build.png) Insider January 14, 2026 Behavior: The Variable You Have to Build In my previous article, I made a point that might seem counterintuitive given the billions being spent on AI: technology is often the easy part of the following equation: Impact = Technology × Behavior × Management ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/behavior-the-variable-you-have-to-build-1) ### [![When the Gemba Outruns Your Knowledge: The ](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/raw_assets/public/tech-lean-org/images/articles/when-the-gemba-outruns-your-knowledge.png) December 18, 2025 When the Gemba Outruns Your Knowledge: The "Third Coach" in the Room We arrived at Viwinco with the confidence that experienced lean coaches usually bring. The problem looked straightforward: they were laminating two pieces of glass with a polyvinyl butyral (PVB) interlayer, and they ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/when-gemba-outruns-your-knowledge) ### [![Everyone Is Now a Developer: New Jobs in the Age of AI](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/raw_assets/public/tech-lean-org/images/articles/everyone-is-now-a-developer.png) December 11, 2025 Everyone Is Now a Developer: New Jobs in the Age of AI Once a week, I take an electrician's class. It's a fallback in case AI obliterates white-collar work. An 18-year-old whiz kid sits next to me. Last Friday, attempting to stay current with the youth, I asked him what he ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/everyone-is-now-a-developer) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/lean%20and%20AI.png) December 4, 2025 Lean and AI? Editor's Note: We selected this article because it offers a rare lean tech practitioner's perspective on how AI is actually changing work — not through hype, but through 400+ hours of hands-on experimentation. Régis ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/lean-and-ai-1) ### [![Technology Is the Easy Piece of the Equation](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/raw_assets/public/tech-lean-org/images/articles/technology-is-the-easy-piece.png) November 19, 2025 Technology Is the Easy Piece of the Equation In my last article, I introduced a simple but unforgiving equation: Impact = Technology x Behavior x Management. If any of the three components approaches zero, the product collapses. Impressive tools, great people, or ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/technology-is-the-easy-piece) ### [![Industrializing AI for Software Development Offers an AI Roadmap for All](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/raw_assets/public/tech-lean-org/images/articles/industrializing-ai-for-software.png) November 5, 2025 Industrializing AI for Software Development Offers an AI Roadmap for All This article was written by Claude, the artificial intelligence service by Anthropic, based on the transcript from an LEI interview with Fabrice Bernhard, Co-Founder of Theodo. When Fabrice Bernhard, Co-Founder of ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/industrializing-ai-for-software) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/Tech.png) October 29, 2025 Technology ✖️ Behavior ✖️ Management 🟰 Impact: Lessons from 30 Years of Lean for the Age of AI In my recent articles, “Five Levels of AI Collaboration” and “Navigating the Hype vs. Reality in the AI Landscape,” I explored how leaders can think more clearly about AI’s potential and limits. Yet after the excitement ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/technology-️-behavior-️-management-impact-lessons-from-30-years-of-lean-for-the-age-of-ai) ### [![Unlearning Traditional Management to Succeed with Lean](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/raw_assets/public/tech-lean-org/images/articles/unlearning-traditional-management.png) October 28, 2025 Unlearning Traditional Management to Succeed with Lean Several universities today offer degrees, certifications, and certificates in lean management, far more than a decade or two ago when many executives were getting acquainted with lean thinking and having to examine ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/unlearning-traditional-management) ### [![The Boundary Is Moving: AI Changes What We Expect from Leaders](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/raw_assets/public/tech-lean-org/images/articles/the-boundary-is-moving.png) October 22, 2025 The Boundary Is Moving: AI Changes What We Expect from Leaders About a year and a half ago at O.C. Tanner, I was doing a shop-floor visit when a night shift team leader showed me something that changed how I think about AI and manufacturing. He'd taught his iPhone to spot defects ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/the-boundary-is-moving) ### [![The Five Levels of AI Collaboration](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/raw_assets/public/tech-lean-org/images/articles/five-levels-of-ai-collaboration.png) October 15, 2025 The Five Levels of AI Collaboration: What I Learned from Building Lean Coaching Tools What Explains All the Waste and Variation? Why do two people use the same AI model and get completely different results? One produces clarity and insight; the other, noise and frustration. Why do some think technology ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/five-levels-of-ai-collaboration) ### [![Welcome Your New AI Coach](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/raw_assets/public/tech-lean-org/images/articles/welcome-your-new-ai-coach.png) October 1, 2025 Welcome Your New AI Coach Once a week, I take an electrician's class. It's a hedge against AI obliterating the white-collar economy. At 39, I still have at least 25 years before retirement, and I'd like to acquire an AI-proof skill that could ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/welcome-your-new-ai-coach) ### [![Lean AI Webinar: A New Way to Learn, Practice, and Apply](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/raw_assets/public/tech-lean-org/images/articles/lean-ai-webinar.png) September 25, 2025 Lean AI Webinar: A New Way to Learn, Practice, and Apply Last week, we hosted a webinar exploring the intersection of lean thinking and artificial intelligence. Tyson Heaton interviewed Toyota veterans and lean leaders Art Smalley and John Shook about the history of AI in ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/lean-ai-webinar) ### [![Lean AI: Navigating Hype and Reality in the Age of Artificial Intelligence](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/raw_assets/public/tech-lean-org/images/articles/lean-ai-navigating-hype.png) September 24, 2025 Lean AI: Navigating Hype and Reality in the Age of Artificial Intelligence After four decades watching automation promises in manufacturing, I've learned to separate the real breakthroughs from the demos. But the signals surrounding AI couldn't be more confusing. Geoffrey Hinton, the ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/lean-ai-navigating-hype) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/accelerating%20Lean%20Transformation.png) August 27, 2025 Accelerating Lean Transformation with AI — Without Losing the Plot A recent LinkedIn post stopped me in my tracks: “The irony of chasing 10–15% productivity gains through AI when teams are burning 50–80% of their capacity on low-value work and/or multi-tasking is ripe.” AI’s potential ... Read the article arrow\_right\_alt](https://tech.lean.org/journal/accelerating-lean-transformation-with-ai-without-losing-the-plot) ### [![](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/Skeptical.png) August 21, 2025 From Skeptic to Believer: My Journey into Lean and AI Lean Meets AI This is the first in a series of articles in which the Lean Enterprise Institute and I will explore the unfolding intersection of lean and artificial intelligence (AI) in the years ahead. Each month, we'll ... 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