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:
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Ford Motor Company completely reinvented its Global Product Development System and put decades of knowledge about automotive design at its engineers’ fingertips
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DJO Global, a medical device company, more than tripled the number of products they released to the market and cut development time by 60%
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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.
Preface
Part I : Lean Product Development : The Mastery of Innovation
Chapter 1 : Lean Product Development : The Mastery of Innovation
Chapter 2 : Value and Waste in Product Development
Chapter 3 : The Lean Product Development Benchmarking Study
Part II : The Pioneers of Lean Product Development
Chapter 4 : DJO Global : The Fundamentals of Lean Product Development
Chapter 5 : Scania Technical Centre : A Pioneering Lean Product Development Champion
Chapter 6 : Ford Motor Company : How to Revitalize an American Icon
Part III : Lean Product Development to Make the Right Products
Chapter 7 : Buckeye Technologies : Lean Tools for Strategic Alignment
Chapter 8 : Steelcase : Go-and-See New Customers to Open New Markets
Chapter 9 : Philips : Comprehensive Lean Scheduling
Part IV : Lean Product Development to Make Products Better, Faster, Cheaper
Chapter 10 : Novo Nordisk : Metrics to Drive Change
Chapter 11 : Visteon : Knowledge at the Engineer’s Fingertips
Chapter 12 : A-dec : Project Chiefs to Speed Decision Making
Part V : Lean Product Development Transformation
Chapter 13 : Nielsen-Kellerman : Just Start Somewhere
Chapter 14 : Vaisala : From Pilot Projects to Global Transformation
Chapter 15 : Playworld Systems : How to Cut Time to Market in Half—Twice
Part VI : The Path of Innovation Mastery
Chapter 16 : The Path of Mastery : How to Begin with Lean Product Development
Appendix 1 : The Mastery of Innovation Self-Assessment
Appendix 2 : A Guide for Book Study Groups
Appendix 3 : List of Participating Companies
Appendix 4 : Suggested Reading List and Other Resources
Index
