What it Takes to Win at New Product Development: A Conversation with Steve Spear

In this episode of the WLEI Podcast, we speak with Steve Spear, a senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, senior fellow at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, and associated faculty member at Adriane Labs of the Harvard School of Public Health. Spear is also author of The High-Velocity Edge and Wiring the Winning Organization and principal of SeeToSolve.

The conversation explores: 

• Stellar examples of product development innovation (and the learning cultures that made these achievements possible)
• What Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, DevOps, and more schools of systems thinking and management all have in common
• What business and product leaders across hardware and software can learn from each other
• Key ideas and core principles you should take away from his latest book 
• What kind of leadership Steve believes is needed now and what good leadership looks like in practice, given all of the organizational challenges companies face today