Consultant and author of "The Lean Innovation Cycle"

Episode page: https://leanblog.org/445

My guest for Episode #445 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Michael Parent. He is the Managing Director of Michael Parent Consulting Services and a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt with AAA Auto Club Group in Michigan.

He has written a new book titled The Lean Innovation Cycle: A Multi-Disciplinary Framework for Designing Value with Lean and Human-Centered Design. 

Today, we're going to take a dive deep into topics that augment both the Lean and Human Centered Design frameworks.

Today, we discuss topics and questions including:

• How about an Operational Definition: What is Human Centered Design?

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