The Mastery of Innovation: A Field Guide to Lean Product Development
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (883 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00BC9INOI |
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| Number of Pages | : | 318 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Alex D'Anci said A practical book for understanding and applying lean product development. 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 di. Just kind of Meh overall First I was extremely confused by the structure of the book, either I missed how it was supposed to be structured or the author did a poor job outlining how the book was constructed. I felt that a lot of pieces were lacking for each example, however it was designed to be that way. Which made the book feel overall very light on details and less useful than it could have been otherwise. I do not believe that a full Lean product development cycle was followed through . "Kindle Version do not have a lot of important figures and images" according to Steppen Wolf. The kindle version do not have a lot of the required figures and images. This review will be completed later.
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. 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
This book includes Discussion Questions, Next Actions, a Self-Assessment and a Book Study Guide to help you turn their experiences into practical actions for your company.Profiled companies include:A-DecBuckeye TechnologiesDJO GlobalFord Motor CompanyGoodyear Tire CompanyHixsonIrwin Seating CompanyMetsecNielsen KellermanNovo NordiskPlayworld SystemsPhilips ElectronicsRUAG SpaceScaniaSteelcaseUngar MarketingVaisalaVisteonWatlow. From the Author I wrote this book to show that lean product developers get their ideas to market faster!Lean product development principles help companies master the art and science of innovation, to help them generate better ideas and then execute those ideas more successfully.I spent nearly two years visiting companies that had achieved sustainable results through the mastery of innovation: reduced time-to
In the past seven years, her consulting firm, Whittier Consulting Group, Inc., has engaged with clients such as Steelcase, Hewlett- Packard, and more than 50 other leading organizations. In 2005, she logged more than 11,000 miles driving around the country to research how the best companies got more ROI from