In 2003 Product Development for the Lean Enterprise by Michael Kennedy was published and promptly turned product development in major corporations on its head. Now, five years later, comes a continuation of that book, including case histories that identify the pitfalls and lessons learned in implementing the Toyota product development system. The authors also show how Toyota's set-based learning system can be adapted and adopted by all areas of a business in order to produce major advantages over the competition. Whether a group of engineers is developing new cars, software applications, aerospace equipment, kitchen appliances, controls, sensors, or any of hundreds of different items, the process they follow is pretty much the same, except in one company -- Toyota, perhaps the most innovative and highly respected car company on the planet. Companies that are early adopters of the Toyota system are certain to realize tremendous advantages over their competitors. This is a change that is coming to businesses everywhere and this book shows the way. It is a must-read for anyone in management.
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Michael Kennedy and his team have done what many thought to be impossible. They have provided an answer to what companies have been trying to achieve for years: achievable and significant product development improvements presented is a way anyone can understand. --Thane Hathaway, President & CEO EAC Product Development Solutions
Mike Kennedy continues our journey with a major industrial company in its struggles to maintain competitiveness via its product development process. Our adventure began in his first book, Product Development for the Lean Enterprise, as our hero, Jon Stevens, set out to prepare his company for an arduous through the jungle of corporate resistance to change. Now Jon is back for an even more dangerous mission -- implementing significant paradigm shifts beyond a single department to emcompass the entire company. Many bold and daring managers have never returned from this swamp. Through his creative style and hero, Mike shows us the way based on actual experiences of the author and his associates as they help real companies make real change and experience the rewards. --Rick Jarman, President & CEO National Center for Manufacturing Sciences
We at Fisher & Paykel Appliances Ltd are proud of the innovative products that we have introduced to the appliance world. Our only frustration has been the time that it takes to develop these products using conventional product development methods. We were looking for a better way and upon reading Michael Kennedy's first book the answer became obvious -- Learning First Product Development. The simple conceptual change from 'design and test' to 'test and design' was the clincher. We introduced LFPD to our engineering team and after seeing the benefits of knowledge capture and reuse in this area we are looking to extend the practice throughout our organization. --John Bongard, CEO, Fisher & Paykel Appliances
Mike Kennedy continues our journey with a major industrial company in its struggles to maintain competitiveness via its product development process. Our adventure began in his first book, Product Development for the Lean Enterprise, as our hero, Jon Stevens, set out to prepare his company for an arduous through the jungle of corporate resistance to change. Now Jon is back for an even more dangerous mission -- implementing significant paradigm shifts beyond a single department to emcompass the entire company. Many bold and daring managers have never returned from this swamp. Through his creative style and hero, Mike shows us the way based on actual experiences of the author and his associates as they help real companies make real change and experience the rewards. --Rick Jarman, President & CEO National Center for Manufacturing Sciences
We at Fisher & Paykel Appliances Ltd are proud of the innovative products that we have introduced to the appliance world. Our only frustration has been the time that it takes to develop these products using conventional product development methods. We were looking for a better way and upon reading Michael Kennedy's first book the answer became obvious -- Learning First Product Development. The simple conceptual change from 'design and test' to 'test and design' was the clincher. We introduced LFPD to our engineering team and after seeing the benefits of knowledge capture and reuse in this area we are looking to extend the practice throughout our organization. --John Bongard, CEO, Fisher & Paykel Appliances
Mike Kennedy continues our journey with a major industrial company in its struggles to maintain competitiveness via its product development process. Our adventure began in his first book, Product Development for the Lean Enterprise, as our hero, Jon Stevens, set out to prepare his company for an arduous through the jungle of corporate resistance to change. Now Jon is back for an even more dangerous mission -- implementing significant paradigm shifts beyond a single department to emcompass the entire company. Many bold and daring managers have never returned from this swamp. Through his creative style and hero, Mike shows us the way based on actual experiences of the author and his associates as they help real companies make real change and experience the rewards. --Rick Jarman, President & CEO National Center for Manufacturing Sciences
We at Fisher & Paykel Appliances Ltd are proud of the innovative products that we have introduced to the appliance world. Our only frustration has been the time that it takes to develop these products using conventional product development methods. We were looking for a better way and upon reading Michael Kennedy's first book the answer became obvious -- Learning First Product Development. The simple conceptual change from 'design and test' to 'test and design' was the clincher. We introduced LFPD to our engineering team and after seeing the benefits of knowledge capture and reuse in this area we are looking to extend the practice throughout our organization. --John Bongard, CEO, Fisher & Paykel Appliances
Mike Kennedy continues our journey with a major industrial company in its struggles to maintain competitiveness via its product development process. Our adventure began in his first book, Product Development for the Lean Enterprise, as our hero, Jon Stevens, set out to prepare his company for an arduous through the jungle of corporate resistance to change. Now Jon is back for an even more dangerous mission -- implementing significant paradigm shifts beyond a single department to emcompass the entire company. Many bold and daring managers have never returned from this swamp. Through his creative style and hero, Mike shows us the way based on actual experiences of the author and his associates as they help real companies make real change and experience the rewards. --Rick Jarman, President & CEO National Center for Manufacturing Sciences
We at Fisher & Paykel Appliances Ltd are proud of the innovative products that we have introduced to the appliance world. Our only frustration has been the time that it takes to develop these products using conventional product development methods. We were looking for a better way and upon reading Michael Kennedy's first book the answer became obvious -- Learning First Product Development. The simple conceptual change from 'design and test' to 'test and design' was the clincher. We introduced LFPD to our engineering team and after seeing the benefits of knowledge capture and reuse in this area we are looking to extend the practice throughout our organization. --John Bongard, CEO, Fisher & Paykel Appliances
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The authors work extensively with companies to adapt and implement Toyota's set-based learning to achieve up to 4X gains in productivity and knowledge waste reduction. These companies include those from manufacturing and chemical development to the construction industry.
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If you're serious about the Toyota Way in product development ...,
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This review is from: Ready, Set, Dominate: Implement Toyota's Set-based Learning for Developing Products and Nobody Can Catch You (Paperback)
This is the second of Kennedy's books and, like the first, most of it's in the form of a business novel. Those familiar with product development in Western firms will find all of the characters familiar - sometimes painfully so.
What sets the new book apart is inclusion of two powerful case studies of committed implementation of set-based (problem solving/knowledge-based) product development. Tellingly, both case study firms were not experimenting with this approach, their senior executives were committed to making it work. The results have been spectacular and compelling. In a nutshell: Kennedy is selling something valuable. Like a good salesman, his first book Product Development for the Lean Enterprise: Why Toyota's System Is Four Times More Productive and How You Can Implement It conveys his sympathy for how you FEEL the pain and shows how he's FELT it, too (from years in U.S. aerospace/high tech firms). This book's case studies explain what he's FOUND to really solve those problems.
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I saw the light in Lean PD,
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This review is from: Ready, Set, Dominate: Implement Toyota's Set-based Learning for Developing Products and Nobody Can Catch You (Paperback)
Eventually I saw the light ... after having been reading books on Toyota Product Development I strongly recommend this book to clarify the concepts of knowledge management beside the big successes of Lean PD. I suggest reading this book with his kennedy's companion and with the book of Allen Ward Lean Product and Process Development by LEI. Only one remark, there is a strong need of clear Knowledge Brief or A3 report examples and the book does not cover very well. Neverthless it is really worth reading.
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Ok. Moves slow....,
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This review is from: Ready, Set, Dominate: Implement Toyota's Set-based Learning for Developing Products and Nobody Can Catch You (Paperback)
Read the previous books. This book seems to move slow. The concepts are good. However, it takes a while to get to the meat.
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