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Designing the Future: How Ford, Toyota, and Other World-Class Organizations Use Lean Product Development to Drive Innovation and Transform Their Busin (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781260128789)
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xHow companies are using lean development to revolutionize their product and service offerings--vital lessons any business leader can use as an engine of innovation
How did Ford Motors use Lean Development to pull off one of the most impressive corporate turnarounds in history? Largely by avoiding the mistakes that so many companies make when in a death spiral. They looked beyond manufacturing efficiency to change the very fundamentals of how they developed vehicles.
In Designing the Future, Lean product development expert James Morgan and world-renowned Lean guru Jeffrey K. Liker reveal why so many companies have achieved only moderate success with Lean in operations, with a limited impact on their overall business. They take you through the process of bringing the best of Lean management to your enterprise--in order to link your business strategy to superior value designed for customers.
The authors provide an actionable approach to building a better future for your business fueled by an iterative, integrated process that relies on simultaneous engineering, linking strategy and vision.They illustrate how to empower skilled and talented people to make collaboration and innovation a habit--hour to hour and day to day. It's the secret of full implementation of Lean--and this groundbreaking guide takes you through every step of the process.
The best way to predict the future is to create it. With Designing the Future, you have everything you need to create a flexible, iterative business-transformation process that takes you from strategic vision to value stream creation for maximum customer value delivery.
Author: James M. Morgan, Jeffrey K. Liker
ISBN-10: 1260128784
ISBN-13: 9781260128789
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Language: English
Published: 10/31/2018
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.50d
How did Ford Motors use Lean Development to pull off one of the most impressive corporate turnarounds in history? Largely by avoiding the mistakes that so many companies make when in a death spiral. They looked beyond manufacturing efficiency to change the very fundamentals of how they developed vehicles.
In Designing the Future, Lean product development expert James Morgan and world-renowned Lean guru Jeffrey K. Liker reveal why so many companies have achieved only moderate success with Lean in operations, with a limited impact on their overall business. They take you through the process of bringing the best of Lean management to your enterprise--in order to link your business strategy to superior value designed for customers.
The authors provide an actionable approach to building a better future for your business fueled by an iterative, integrated process that relies on simultaneous engineering, linking strategy and vision.They illustrate how to empower skilled and talented people to make collaboration and innovation a habit--hour to hour and day to day. It's the secret of full implementation of Lean--and this groundbreaking guide takes you through every step of the process.
The best way to predict the future is to create it. With Designing the Future, you have everything you need to create a flexible, iterative business-transformation process that takes you from strategic vision to value stream creation for maximum customer value delivery.
Author: James M. Morgan, Jeffrey K. Liker
ISBN-10: 1260128784
ISBN-13: 9781260128789
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Language: English
Published: 10/31/2018
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.50d
By James M. Morgan
xJames M. Morgan is Senior Advisor at the Lean Enterprise Institute and founder of LEI's LPPD initiative. Dr. Morgan is a multi Shingo Prize winning author, researcher, and a globally recognized expert in product and process development. Prior to joining LEI, he spent more than thirty years in industry as a product development leader including serving as a global engineering director at Ford Motor Company during the product led revitalization under CEO Alan Mulally.
Jeffrey K. Liker is Professor Emeritus of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan and president of Liker Lean Advisors, LLC. His books on Toyota's famed management system, starting with the international bestseller The Toyota Way, have educated a generation of business leaders, Lean practitioners, and others tasked with improving business operations. Liker's work has earned him thirteen Shingo Prizes, as well as membership in the Shingo Academy and the AME Hall of Fame.
Jeffrey K. Liker is Professor Emeritus of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan and president of Liker Lean Advisors, LLC. His books on Toyota's famed management system, starting with the international bestseller The Toyota Way, have educated a generation of business leaders, Lean practitioners, and others tasked with improving business operations. Liker's work has earned him thirteen Shingo Prizes, as well as membership in the Shingo Academy and the AME Hall of Fame.
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