The owner
You lead an established business or run a smaller one. You want to choose where AI can make a useful difference and understand what it takes to put it to work.
Lean AI · Kindle and paperback
The right opportunity. The method to make it real.
Find where AI can make a useful difference. Build it around how your business works.
Lean Six Sigma, put to work on AI. A practical book for leaders planning the change and the people making it happen, by Said Lopez.
Available to buy on Kindle and in paperback.
From the foreword
“This book teaches you how to ask the right questions. It teaches you how to take a step back and understand what problems actually need to be solved”
Inside
Understand the work. Then change it.
Nine chapters. Seven of them come with a tool.
Find the real problem. Go to where the work happens, draw how it flows, and run one pilot. Then win the room over and keep it alive.
The tools are free on this site. The book is why they work.
Lean AI Contents
- 01Why 95% of AI projects fail
- 02Fix the work first, add the tech second
- 03Find the real problemtool
- 04Go to the gembatool
- 05Draw how the work flowstool
- 06Plan the first pilottool
- 07Win the room overtool
- 08Put the jobs in ordertool
- 09Keep it alive and make it bettertool
- +Extras and templates
Who it is for
For leaders planning the change and teams making it happen.
The operator
You run the team the tools were meant to help. You want a way to pick one job, prove it works, and do it without building a slide deck.
The champion
You are the one who actually got a pilot working. Now you want the words to get it taken up, and a way to keep it alive.
The companion tools
Put the next chapter to work.
Seven interactive tools. Free to use, with no email required.
Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6Chapter 7Chapter 8Chapter 9
AI Necessity Test
Does this job really need AI?
Gemba Conversation Guide
The questions to ask where the work happens.
Value Stream Mapping
Draw how the work flows, start to end.
Pilot Planning Canvas
Plan your first small test.
Stakeholder Pitch Builder
Build the case your board will back.
Three Question Filter
Put your AI jobs in the right order.
Monthly Retrospective
Look back, learn, and make it better.
Author
Experience, written down.
Said Lopez, Founder of LeverageAI
Ten years running operations in factories owned by private equity. Five more bringing AI into businesses. The book is what he does, written down.
See the method in practiceYour next chapter
Read the method. Or run it with us.
The book is on Amazon. To explore a workshop for your business, start with a free 15-minute fit call. We’ll discuss scope and pricing together.