Description: Thinking Beyond Lean by Michael A. Cusumano, Kentaro Nobeoka Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description "Lean Thinking" has dominated product development and project management for over a decade. Now, however, a six-year study by MITs International Motor Vehicle Program led by Michael Cusumano and Kentaro Nobeoka finds that, in order to dramatically improve product portfolios, Toyota and other leading companies are moving beyond single-project management on which lean thinking is based. In Thinking Beyond Lean, Cusumano and Nobeoka show that single-project management can produce isolated hit products and "fat" designs that contain few common components and many unnecessary parts and features. As a result, in this era of slowing growth and falling profits, leading companies are maximizing their investment by utilizing a groundbreaking concept the authors call "multi-project management." Drawing on a data base of 210 automobile products and detailed case studies from Toyota, Ford, GM, Chrysler, Nissan, Honda, Mazda, Renault, and Fiat, the authors demonstrate how product development teams can share engineers and key common components but retain separate designers to maintain distinctive product features. The result: multi-project management has brought these companies huge savings in development and production costs. Cusumano and Nobeokas findings will be required reading for every company that makes more than one product. Taking up where The Machine That Changed the World left off, Thinking Beyond Lean will change the way leaders do business now and in the future. Publisher Description "Lean Thinking" has dominated product development and project management for over a decade. Now, however, a six-year study by MITs International Motor Vehicle Program led by Michael Cusumano and Kentaro Nobeoka finds that, in order to dramatically improve product portfolios, Toyota and other leading companies are moving beyond single-project management on which lean thinking is based. In Thinking Beyond Lean, Cusumano and Nobeoka show that single-project management can produce isolated hit products and "fat" designs that contain few common components and many unnecessary parts and features. As a result, in this era of slowing growth and falling profits, leading companies are maximizing their investment by utilizing a groundbreaking concept the authors call "multi-project management." Drawing on a data base of 210 automobile products and detailed case studies from Toyota, Ford, GM, Chrysler, Nissan, Honda, Mazda, Renault, and Fiat, the authors demonstrate how product development teams can share engineers and key common components but retain separate designers to maintain distinctive product features. The result: multi-project management has brought these companies huge savings in development and production costs. Cusumano and Nobeokas findings will be required reading for every company that makes more than one product. Taking up where The Machine That Changed the World left off, Thinking Beyond Lean will change the way leaders do business now and in the future. Author Biography Michael A. Cusumano is Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management at MITs Sloan School of Management. A leading expert on the strategic management of technology, Professor Cusumano is co-author of Microsoft Secrets and the author of The Japanese Automobile Industry and Japans Software Factories. Details ISBN 1439101779 ISBN-13 9781439101773 Title Thinking Beyond Lean Author Michael A. Cusumano, Kentaro Nobeoka Format Paperback Year 2008 Pages 268 Publisher Simon & Schuster GE_Item_ID:19328595; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. 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Book Title: Thinking Beyond Lean : How Multi Project Management Is Transforming Produ
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Free Press
Topic: Industries / Automobile Industry, Engineering (General), Project Management, Automotive / General, General, Automotive, Organizational Development
Publication Year: 2008
Item Height: 0.7 in
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Genre: Transportation, Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics
Item Weight: 11.6 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Michael A. Cusumano, Nobeoka Kentaro
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
