Ready, Set, Dominate: Implement Toyota’s Set-Based Learning for Developing Products and Nobody Can Catch You - Softcover

Kennedy, Michael; Harmon, Kent; Minnock, Ed

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1511659653 ISBN 13: 9781511659659

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2008

Synopsis

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. This book is based on five years of hands on experience implementing Toyota's product development system, which according to research by the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) achieves industry-leading quality and innovation while being four times as productive as the typical western company. Companies that are early adopters of the Toyota system are certain to realize tremendous advantages over their rivals. And the authors show how Toyota’s set-based learning system can be adapted and adopted by other areas of a business as well, producing major advantages over a company’s competition. This is a change that is coming to businesses everywhere and this book shows the way. It is a must read for anyone who is interested in better serving customers, investors, and employees.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Kennedy and Kent Harmon work extensively with major manufacturers such as General Motors, United Technologies, Boeing, and Delphi to adapt and implement Toyota's set-based learning for developing products in order to meet the product development needs of those companies and to chart their way into the future.

Review

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

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1511659653
• ISBN 13: 9781511659659
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296