The Mastery of Innovation: A Field Guide to Lean Product Development by Katherin

Description: The Mastery of Innovation by Katherine Radeka 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. 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book compiles the experiences of over 150 companies that have embraced the theories of Lean product development. It provides an integrated view of Lean as it is practiced inside successful companies today. Examples, case studies, and stories drawn from small, medium, and large companies in a variety of industries support concepts and provide opportunities for readers to see the concepts in action. Each chapter includes actionable recommendations to provide ideas on how to try the concepts out for themselves and their teams. Author Biography Katherine Radeka possesses a rare combination of business acumen, scientific depth, and ability to untangle the organizational knots to remove the barriers to change. In the past six years, her consulting firm, Whittier Consulting Group, Inc. has engaged with clients such as Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Buckeye Technologies, The Toro Company, Wells Fargo, Alticor, and more than fifty other leading organizations. Table of Contents LEAN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: THE MASTERY OF INNOVATION. Lean Product Development: The Mastery of Innovation. Value and Waste in Product Development. The Lean Product Development Benchmarking Study. THE PIONEERS OF LEAN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT. DJO Global: The Fundamentals of Lean Product Development. Scania Technical Centre: A Pioneering Lean Product Development Champion. Ford Motor Company: How to Revitalize an American Icon. LEAN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT TO MAKE THE RIGHT PRODUCTS. Buckeye Technologies: Lean Tools for Strategic Alignment. Steelcase: Go-and-See New Customers to Open New Markets. Philips: Comprehensive Lean Scheduling. LEAN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT TO MAKE PRODUCTS BETTER, FASTER, CHEAPER. Novo Nordisk: Metrics to Drive Change. Visteon: Knowledge at the Engineers Fingertips. A-dec: Project Chiefs to Speed Decision Making. LEAN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT TRANSFORMATION. Nielsen-Kellerman: Just Start Somewhere. Vaisala: From Pilot Projects to Global Transformation. Playworld Systems: How to Cut Time to Market in Half—Twice. THE PATH OF INNOVATION MASTERY. The Path of Mastery: How to Begin with Lean Product Development. Details ISBN1439877025 Author Katherine Radeka Year 2012 ISBN-10 1439877025 ISBN-13 9781439877029 Media Book Short Title MASTERY OF INNOVATION Pages 265 Language English Affiliation Whittier Consulting Group, Inc., Camas, Washington, USA Imprint Productivity Press Subtitle A Field Guide to Lean Product Development Place of Publication Portland Country of Publication United States Format Hardcover AU Release Date 2012-10-11 NZ Release Date 2012-10-11 US Release Date 2012-10-11 UK Release Date 2012-10-11 Publication Date 2012-10-11 Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc DEWEY 658.575 Illustrations 1 Tables, black and white; 38 Illustrations, black and white Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:135086240;

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