Ready, Set, Dominate: Implement Toyota's Set-Based Learning for Developing Products and Nobody Can Catch You
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 SolutionsMike 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 SciencesWe 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 AppliancesMike 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 SciencesWe 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 AppliancesMike 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 SciencesWe 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