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.

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Contents

LEAN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: THE MASTERY OF INNOVATION

Lean Product Development: The Mastery of Innovation

The Definition of Lean Product Development

We Already Do All of This&mdash Mastered Innovation?

How Does Lean Product Development Deliver Results?

The Engine of Knowledge Creation

Value and Waste in Product Development

Value-Creating Activities and Waste

Value and Waste in Product Development

The Four Value Streams of Lean Product Development

The Lean Product Development Benchmarking Study

Where Did These Companies Come from?

A Diverse Set of Companies

What Surprised Me

Suggestions for Using the Case Studies

THE PIONEERS OF LEAN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

DJO Global: The Fundamentals of Lean Product Development

Lean Product Development at DJO

Protostorming

LAMDA and A3 Problem Solving in Product Development

Metrics to Drive a Lean Product Development Culture

Results and Next Steps

Scania Technical Centre: A Pioneering Lean Product Development Champion

Lean Product Development at Scania

Lean Improvement Coaches

Product Development T...