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In the past seven years, her consulting firm, Whittier Consulting Group, Inc. In , she logged more than 11, miles driving around the country to research how the best companies got more ROI from product development. Katherine has climbed seven of the tallest peaks in the Cascade Mountains and spent 10 days alone on the Pacific Crest Trail until an encounter with a bear convinced her that she needed a change in strategic direction.
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Refresh and try again. That being said, it's a great beginning to see how companies are going through the transition of traditional product development to Lean product development. Collection of case studies across a variety of companies who have employed some manner of Lean Product Development. The Path of Mastery: This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Jocko Selberg marked it as to-read May 12, There was a problem filtering reviews right now.
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Description Table of Contents Author s Bio. Their stories show that Lean Product Development delivers results: Author s Bio Katherine Radeka has a rare combination of business acumen, scientific depth, and the ability to untangle the organizational knots and remove the barriers to change.
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There were awkward placement of pictures and inserts that made following the book jarring. I believe that combining this book with other books on Lean Product Development is key.
If this was my first introduction to LPD this would have been extremely powerful, however I've already read several books on the topic. Great introduction to the concepts of Lean product development, less useful if you're looking for a more detailed guide. Feb 09, Micah Siegmund rated it liked it.
Collection of case studies across a variety of companies who have employed some manner of Lean Product Development. These companies adapted Lean Manufacturing tools in varying degrees to apply to product development, and the author summarizes where they started, how they committed to initiating Lean processes, and what the results were. Interesting read and while the stories were all similar on some level there were some good nuggets in each of them. Dec 30, Helena Claire rated it it was amazing. I enjoyed the case study structure of this book.
It was interesting to read how the different companies are using Lean Product Development in different ways. I especially enjoyed the story about Nielsen Kellerman, and the description of Lean Scheduling.
She could have gone into more detail but then she could have written an entire book about each of the case studies. Alicia rated it it was ok Jan 17, Joao Borges rated it liked it Jan 14, John rated it really liked it Sep 03, Heikki rated it did not like it Apr 27, Tom rated it liked it Jan 03, Ravinder marked it as to-read Aug 03, Nuno Seixas marked it as to-read Sep 16, Adam marked it as to-read Jan 14, Josh marked it as to-read Apr 30, Jocko Selberg marked it as to-read May 12, Kamal marked it as to-read Oct 02, Ivan Lopez Maurtua added it Dec 15, Michael marked it as to-read Jan 10, Ines is currently reading it Mar 18, Chris Wyman marked it as to-read Jun 16, Stepan Zinin marked it as to-read Aug 05, Jonathan Ha marked it as to-read Oct 18, Tom Moehring marked it as to-read Feb 07, Greg marked it as to-read Apr 27, Sunil Rao marked it as to-read Oct 14, Maurizio marked it as to-read Dec 18, Caroling marked it as to-read Jul 06,