Benjamin Jakel's Contact Details

Benjamin Jakel's Company Details

Rapid Learning Cycles Institute

Camas, WA, US • 5 - 9 Employees
Management Consulting

The Rapid Learning Cycles framework helps innovators change the world — faster — by addressing the specific obstacles that get in the way.Teams using this framework can accelerate good ideas as they fail fast with others.The Rapid Learning Cycles framework is a synthesis of Katherine Radeka's work over the past ten years to use Agile and Lean practices in the front end of product development. It came together in 2010, with a series of four consulting projects in four different industries to solve a common problem:How do we spend our time and resources most effectively in the early stages of product development to ensure that poor ideas fail quickly, and good ideas are set up for success in execution?Since then, we have honed and refined the framework into a repeatable process that is in use in over 100 companies around the world. Unlike Agile and Lean on their own, the Rapid Learning Cycles framework quickly gains support from developers and executives alike. The developers appreciate the respect for their expert knowledge and professionalism and the freedom to do the right thing for the program - the executives love the results.Over 90% of the participants in the 2015/2016 Rapid Learning Cycles Certification workshops went on to run a program using the framework. Over 70% of the participating companies are sending more people to the 2016/2017 workshops. Over half have now incorporated the Rapid Learning Cycles framework into their company's standard Product Development Process, or intend to do so by the end of 2016. That's the best proof that this works the first time - and then it sticks.The Rapid Learning Cycles Institute provides products, online classes and in-person workshops to inform, train and support companies to use the Rapid Learning Cycles framework to accelerate product development.