THE MASTERY OF INNOVATION : A Field Guide to Lean Product Development

Title:

Personal Author:

Radeka, Katherine.

Publication Information:

Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2013.

Physical Description:

xix, 245 pages. : illustrations. ; 25 cm.

ISBN:

9781439877029

Subject Term:

Production planning.

New products -- Management.

Lean manufacturing.

Industrial efficiency.

Available:*

Library	Item Barcode	Call Number	Material Type	Item Category 1	Status
Searching... MJIIT Library	30000010243323	HD30.28 R33 2013	Open Access Book	Book	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Razak School	33000000016179	HD30.28 R33 2013	Open Access Book	Book	Searching... Unknown

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.

Author Notes

Katherine Radeka has a rare combination of business acumen, scientific depth, and the ability to untangle the organizational knots and remove the barriers to change. 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 2010 and 2011, Katherine conducted the Lean Product Development Benchmarking Study to document Lean Product Development practices at more than 60 companies in North America and Europe. In 2005, she logged more than 11,000 miles driving around the country to research how the best companies got more ROI from product development. In 2007, she co-founded the Lean Product & Process Development Exchange, a nonprofit organization to promote the use of Lean Thinking to improve ROI from product development.

Katherine has climbed seven of the tallest peaks in the Cascade Mountains and spent 10 days alone on the Pacific Crest Trail until an encounter with a bear convinced her that she needed a change in strategic direction.

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
Section I Lean Product Development: The Mastery of Innovation
Chapter 1 Lean Product Development: The Mastery of Innovation	p. 3
The Definition of Lean Product Development	p. 4
We Already Do All of This-Have We Mastered Innovation?	p. 6
How Does Lean Product Development Deliver Results?	p. 9
The Engine of Knowledge Creation	p. 10
Chapter 2 Value and Waste in Product Development	p. 15
Value-Creating Activities and Waste	p. 15
Value and Waste in Product Development	p. 19
The Four Value Streams of Lean Product Development	p. 20
Chapter 3 The Lean Product Development Benchmarking Study	p. 29
Where Did These Companies Come from?	p. 29
A Diverse Set of Companies	p. 30
What Surprised Me	p. 37
Suggestions for Using the Case Studies	p. 38
Section II The Pioneers of Lean Product Development
Chapter 4 DJO Global: The Fundamentals of Lean Product Development	p. 43
Lean Product Development at DJO	p. 44
Protostorming	p. 45
LAMDA and A3 Problem Solving in Product Development	p. 46
Metrics to Drive a Lean Product Development Culture	p. 50
Results and Next Steps	p. 51
Chapter 5 Scania Technical Centre: A Pioneering Lean Product Development Champion	p. 55
Lean Product Development at Scania	p. 55
Lean Improvement Coaches	p. 57
Product Development Team Engagement	p. 57
Product Development Leadership at Scania	p. 58
Visual Planning	p. 59
Chapter 6 Ford Motor Company: How to Revitalize an American Icon	p. 67
Lean Product Development at Ford	p. 68
The Chief Engineer	p. 75
Example: Reducing Wind Noise	p. 76
Results and Next Steps	p. 76
Section III Lean Product Development to Make the Right Products
Chapter 7 Buckeye Technologies: Lean Tools for Strategic
Alignment	p. 81
Lean Product Development at Buckeye	p. 82
Systematic Problem Solving for Product Strategy Development	p. 83
The Power of Pull Factors	p. 84
Lean Ideation with Convergence	p. 85
Results and Next Steps	p. 89
Chapter 8 Steelcase: Go-and-See New Customers to Open New Markets	p. 93
Lean Product Development at Steelcase	p. 94
Customer Intimacy Intelligence in Action	p. 95
Go-and-See	p. 96
Value and Price Validation	p. 97
Value-Driven Design	p. 97
Results	p. 101
Chapter 9 Philips: Comprehensive Lean Scheduling	p. 107
Lean Product Development at Philips Consumer Lifestyle	p. 108
Lean Scheduling	p. 109
Team-Based Planning Process	p. 113
Status Updates	p. 114
Results and Next Steps	p. 116
Section IV Lean Product Development to Make Products Better, Faster, Cheaper
Chapter 10 Novo Nordisk: Metrics to Drive Change	p. 121
cLEAN®: Lean at Novo Nordisk	p. 123
The Interpretation of Lean at Novo Nordisk R & D: Six Basic Principles	p. 123
Transactional versus Knowledge Creation Processes	p. 127
Critical Questions Mapping	p. 129
Keeping Progress Visible: Metrics and KPIs	p. 129
Results and Next Steps	p. 130
Chapter 11 Visteon: Knowledge at the Engineer's Fingertips	p. 135
Lean Product Development at Visteon	p. 136
Simple Process Models	p. 137
Lean Process Audits	p. 138
Reusable Knowledge	p. 139
Results and Next Steps	p. 142
Chapter 12 A-dec: Project Chiefs to Speed Decision Making	p. 145
Lean Product Development at A-dec	p. 146
First Step: Team Leadership	p. 147
The Project Chief	p. 147
Product Development Organizational Structure	p. 150
Go-and-See Customer Visits	p. 151
Results and Next Steps	p. 153
Section V Lean Product Development Transformation
Chapter 13 Nielsen-Kellerman: Just Start Somewhere	p. 157
Lean Product Development at Nielsen-Kellerman	p. 158
Inefficient Meetings: Visual Project Planning	p. 159
Knowledge Capture and Retrieval: The Knowledge Library	p. 161
Nielsen-KellermanÆs Product Development Process	p. 161
Systematic Problem Solving to Solve Technical Problems	p. 165
Results	p. 166
Chapter 14 Vaisala: From Pilot Projects to Global Transformation	p. 171
Lean Product Development at Vaisala'	p. 171
Vaisala's Countermeasure for Travel Expense Allocation	p. 173
Product Portfolio Management	p. 174
Widespread Training	p. 176
Vaisala's Next Steps	p. 179
Chapter 15 Playworld Systems: How to Cut Time to Market in Half-Twice	p. 181
The Need for Speed and Predictability	p. 182
First Attempts with Lean Thinking in Product Development	p. 183
Lean Product Development at Playworld	p. 184
Cutting Time to Market in Half-Twice	p. 186
What's Next for Playworld?	p. 189
Section VI The Path of Innovation Mastery
Chapter 16 The Path of Mastery: How to Begin with Lean Product Development	p. 193
How Long Will It Take?	p. 193
The Phases of Lean Transformation	p. 195
Start Wherever You Are	p. 204
Epilogue: Just Start Somewhere, Just Do Something	p. 207
Appendix 1 The Mastery of Innovation Self-Assessment	p. 215
Appendix 2 A Guide for Book Study Groups	p. 223
Appendix 3 List of Participating Companies	p. 227
Appendix 4 Suggested Reading List and Other Resources	p. 231
Index	p. 233
About the Author	p. 245

Available:*

On Order

Summary

Summary

Author Notes

Table of Contents