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I’m pleased to share a project that brings together three areas that are increasingly relevant to the future of business: Lean Thinking, Systems Thinking and Blockchain technology.

Together with John Dennis, I co-authored Blockchain for Lean Systems: A Training Guide — a book created to explore how blockchain can be understood beyond cryptocurrencies and applied to the way organisations design processes, exchange information and create value.

Why bring these disciplines together?

Lean challenges us to eliminate waste and improve the flow of value. Systems Thinking encourages us to look beyond individual processes and understand how the whole system works. Blockchain introduces possibilities for transparency, traceability, shared records and trust between participants.

The interesting part is not any one of these concepts in isolation. It is what becomes possible when we explore their intersection.

Could we design processes that rely less on repetitive verification? Could supply chains become more transparent? Could organisations rethink how they collaborate and exchange value?

These are not questions that technology alone can answer. They require us to understand the business problem first, challenge existing assumptions and consider whether a different system design could deliver better results.

That is the perspective we wanted to explore in this book: making a complex technology more accessible to Lean practitioners, while encouraging them to think differently about the systems they improve.

For me, this work also reflects a broader professional belief: innovation creates real value when we can connect new ideas to practical business problems.

I’m grateful to John Dennis for the collaboration and for the opportunity to contribute to this emerging conversation.

If you work in Lean Six Sigma, Operational Excellence, process transformation or digital innovation, I hope this book gives you new questions to explore — and perhaps a different way of looking at familiar challenges.

📘 Blockchain for Lean Systems: A Training Guide by Alexandra Niculae and John Dennis.