What do Ford Motor Company, Steelcase, Scania, Goodyear, Novo Nordisk, and Philips Electronics have in common? They all need to get their best ideas to market as fast as possible. They need to achieve the mastery of innovation.
When these companies needed to accelerate time-to-market, get more new products to customers, and improve their ROI from investments in R&D, they turned to Lean Product Development to help them master the process of innovation. By adapting Lean ideas to their specific product development challenges, they learned how to focus innovation on the problems that would maximize customer and business value, and deliver on their best ideas.
Winner of a Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award!
The Mastery of Innovation: A Field Guide to Lean Product Development describes the experiences of 19 companies that have achieved significant results from Lean Product Development. Their stories show that Lean Product Development delivers results:
Ford Motor Company completely reinvented its Global Product Development System and put decades of knowledge about automotive design at its engineers’ fingertips
DJO Global, a medical device company, more than tripled the number of products they released to the market and cut development time by 60%
Playworld Systems cut time-to-market in half–twice
The diverse set of North American and European case studies in this book range from very small product development organizations (three engineers) to very large (more than 10,000). Some of the industries represented include automotive, medical devices, industrial products, consumer electronics, pharmaceuticals, scientific instruments, and aerospace.
These companies have generously shared their knowledge about Lean Product Development to help you get your best ideas to market faster.
Being employed by one of the case study companies in this book, I can attest that the author did a very good job representing our story. Knowing how she approached the work, I have not doubt that Ms. Radeka did equally well with the other companies illustrated in the book. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in the journey of lean product development.
We should all be thankful to Katherine Radeka to have put together this great collection of Lean engineering, reminiscent of Liker's earlier books about early lean manufacturing, describing the field without pre-conceived ideas or prescriptive dogma. The book draws from a large selection from companies and opens up the field of Lean Product and Process Development, which, I believe will turn out to have enven greater potential than lean manufacturing ever did. Read it!
For the last two years, I have been helping companies improve their product development processes with the lean philosophy. During that time I have met with many of the thought leaders who are active in this area, attended their seminars and read their books. I must say that Katherine's work is the best in terms of showing the current state-of-the-art, as well as providing provocative questions we can ask ourselves during our own journeys towards excellence. The discipline of lean product development is still young and forming and what Katherine found was that we all are trying our best to apply the spirit of lean to product development in our own ways. But, the message is clear: make knowedge flow from customer need to satisfaction and how to streamline it. I recommend Katherine's book to anyone with interested in improving product development.
Product Details :
- Hardcover: 265 pages
- Publisher: Productivity Press; 1 edition (October 11, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1439877025
- ISBN-13: 978-1439877029
- Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 6.1 x 9.2 inches
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