AI to Empower People: Fabrice Bernhard on Using AI to Improve Product Development

In this episode of The Design Brief, we speak with Fabrice Bernhard. Fabrice is cofounder and chief technology officer of Theodo, a leading tech consultancy in Europe, and coauthor of The Lean Tech Manifesto. Fabrice discusses what it takes to create great digital products, how high-performing teams can use AI with care, and how LPPD (lean product and process development) thinking works with generative AI to strengthen businesses and teams.

The conversation explores:

• What intentional use of AI in product development looks like (while keeping human beings at the center)

• Where Fabrice and his team have focused their energies helping companies make the digital transformation

• How AI helps teams practice the LPPD principle of “building in learning and knowledge reuse” to create better products

• How business leaders can use AI to “translate” legacy systems into the modern systems we need to do value-creating work now

• Common pitfalls leaders run into when experimenting with AI in product development

Get Started with Lean Product & Process Development

Improving how you develop and deliver products doesn’t require a full transformation to start—it begins with learning to see problems clearly, involve your team, and improve how work gets done.

At the Lean Enterprise Institute, we help organizations:

• Focus on customer-defined value

• Reduce delays and rework

• Build learning into the development process

• Align people, processes, and purpose

Whether you're exploring Lean for the first time or want to improve your development system, we’ll meet you where you are.

Explore your next step:

• Read Designing the Future or The Power of Process

• Take the 60-minute Lean Product and Process Development Overview course

• Join the Designing the Future Workshop for hands-on practice

• Bring a coach into your organization for customized support

Let’s take the first step—together. Learn more at lean.org/LPPD »