Designing the Future, James M. Morgan
Designing the Future, James M. Morgan
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Designing the Future
How Ford, Toyota, and other World-Class Organizations Use Lean Product Development to Drive Innovation and Transform Their Business

Author: James M. Morgan, Jeffrey K. Liker

Narrator: TBD

Unabridged: 13 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/31/2018


Synopsis

How companies are using lean development to revolutionize their product and service offerings-vital lessons any business leader can use as an engine of innovation

How did Ford Motors use Lean Development to pull off one of the most impressive corporate turnarounds in history? Largely by avoiding the mistakes that so many companies make when in a death spiral. They looked beyond manufacturing efficiency to change the very fundamentals of how they developed vehicles.

In Designing the Future, Lean product development expert James Morgan and world-renowned Lean guru Jeffrey K. Liker reveal why so many companies have achieved only moderate success with Lean in operations, with a limited impact on their overall business. They take you through the process of bringing the best of Lean management to your enterprise-in order to link your business strategy to superior value designed for customers.

The authors provide an actionable approach to building a better future for your business fueled by an iterative, integrated process that relies on simultaneous engineering, linking strategy and vision.They illustrate how to empower skilled and talented people to make collaboration and innovation a habit-hour to hour and day to day. It’s the secret of full implementation of Lean-and this groundbreaking guide takes you through every step of the process.

The best way to predict the future is to create it. With Designing the Future, you have everything you need to create a flexible, iterative business-transformation process that takes you from strategic vision to value stream creation for maximum customer value delivery.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Antoine on March 09, 2023

Bonne introduction au Lean Product & Process Development (LPPD), des concepts bien recontextualisés (Concept paper, Chief engineer, jalons, obeya, set-based design, PDCA, Fixed & flexible). 3* car la forme est tres « Bouquin de management à l’américaine » et je trouve la place à la critique du modèle......more

Goodreads review by Rama on April 10, 2019

Lean Product Development as a System: A Case Study for Development at Ford Lean product development is like just-in-time (JIT) process. Mass production emphasizes cost reduction within processes through economies of scale, while lean production emphasizes flexible response to the customer building i......more

Goodreads review by Céleste on June 23, 2021

Passionnant, c’était ouf. Je pense que c’est un must-read pour se mettre sérieusement à l’ingénierie de produit. C’est ultra dense je pense que je vais avoir besoin de le relire. C’est un livre qui détaille chaque aspect du Lean Product and Process Development : comprendre la valeur pour les utilisa......more

Goodreads review by Brandon on March 20, 2023

Decent read. More of a sales pitch on why your company should use lean production principles than it is a guide on exactly HOW to do it. That said, it was interesting hearing the story of how he came onto the CEO seat at Ford and utilized those skills to turn the company around. Gave me quite a few......more

Goodreads review by Bob on March 14, 2019

Excellent overview of the LPPD process. I found complete enjoyment in the fact about the authors outline success stories beyond Toyota. These stories include Menlo Innovations and Ford. I love that each section includes a reflection section to solidify the learning of the chapter. I really think tha......more