Lean Development and Innovation

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Author

1 Lean Product-Process Innovation and Long-Term Thinking

1.1 A Strategic Question: Excellence in the Long-Term or Mediocrity in the Short-Term?

1.2 Innovating to Achieve Success

1.3 From Lean Management to the Lean Development and Innovation System

1.3.1 Lean Thinking

1.3.2 Historical Background of Lean Thinking

1.3.3 What Can We Learn from the Toyota Model?

1.3.4 Wastes in Product and Innovation Processes

1.4 Types of Waste in the Innovation Process

1.5 Process Kaizen in Non-Manufacturing Processes

1.5.1 Waste “Suffered” and Waste “Generated”

1.6 Why Invest in a Lean Development and Innovation System?

1.6.1 Integrating People, Processes, and Tools

1.7 Each Situation Has Its Own Peculiarities ...