Lean Strategies for Product Development: Achieving Breakthrough Performance in Bringing Products to Market

Lean Strategies for Product Development highlights problems that are common to companies in terms of developing products cheaply and efficiently. The result is a book based on proven strategies and methodologies that will enable a company to significantly reduce the time necessary to develop new products and dramatically reduce product cost. Companies that have implemented the concepts presented in Lean Strategies for Product Development have achieved dramatic results. In some cases, cycle time reduction by as much as 70% has been achieved. The concepts are presented in the context of a story centered on two key characters – a customer and his supplier. Through the dialog shared between the characters, the concepts are presented and a new business opportunity emerges.