While Lean principles have been known and applied in a variety of manufacturing processes, the applications in product development have been slower to come. Several companies have also applied Lean to ...

The value stream represents so many processes and activities that refining them individually is nearly impossible. The only way to do it is to harness and distribute process information to the right ...

James M. Morgan and Jeffrey K. Liker, authors of The Toyota Product Development System, Integrating People, Process and Technology (2006, Productivity Press), offer the following product development ...

Two years ago, I was just starting to raise a second round of capital to catapult my startup from public beta to prime-time. The startup, called Camerama, was a photo sharing app akin to a private ...

From the moment ChatGPT was first introduced at the end of 2022, it began to transform how we think about innovation. While artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) have been in ...

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The command-and-control hierarchical organization of large companies is rapidly giving way to a more biological metaphor, one in which a corporate nervous system senses important signals from the ...

Lean design programs cut waste that is hard to see. Lean manufacturing gets lots of press and for good reason. It drives waste out of manufacturing facilities and makes them more profitable. It's ...

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Lean product development principles and practices place customer value at the center of the development process, including front-loading the understanding of the customer in a way that increases ...