Lean-driven innovation : powering product development at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company /: powering product development at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Norbert Majerus.
• Authors: Majerus, Norbert
• Contents: Goodyear Today: Lean Product Development; Goodyear Results from Lean Product Development; Lean R&D Helps Develop Profitable Value Streams; This Lean "Stuff" Really Works; Goodyear’s Brief History of Lean Product Development; Lean Is a Lot of Work; Lean Principles; Notes; ; Success to Survival to a Foundation for Lean; The Golden Age of Tire Technology; Early Building Blocks for Lean; Use of Product and Process Standards; Knowledge Management Office; New Business Objectives; Note; ; The Beginning of a Lean Process; The First Kaikaku—Eroding Profits at Goodyear; Change Management; Changes for the Worse; Policemen, Ambulances, and the Downward Spiral; Outside Help Does not Help Out Enough; Matrix and Project Management; Lean Firsts at Goodyear; Notes; ; Finding and Removing Waste from Product Development; Focus on the Customer; What Do Customers Value?; Value and Waste; Muda, Muri, and Mura; Waste Removal Gets Underway at Goodyear; Notes; ; Making New-Product Value Flow ; Break Down Large Projects into Quick Learning Cycles; Early Attempts at Visual Planning; Finding Our Bottleneck—Herbie Meets Herbie; The Kaikaku We Needed; Exploring Pull and Flow Concepts; The Turning Point; Fast is Better than Slow; Create a Kaikaku; Pit Crew Tries to Accelerate Speed; Notes; ; Lean and Innovation; Dispelling Lean Innovation Myths; Discovery of Lean Tools in the Innovation Creation Process; It Takes More than One Process; Create Capacity and Resources for Innovation; Funding the Innovation Space; Innovation Talent and Serial Innovators; Add Room for Failure to the Innovation Space; Standardizing Innovation; Managing Incoming Work; Manage Work Entering the Product Creation Process; Cost of Delay (COD); Goodyear COD Calculation; Creating Customer Value and Profits; Lean Innovation Killers; More Innovation than Ever Before; Goodyear Innovation Awards; Notes; ; Operating the Lean Product Development Factory; From Lean Initiative to Lean Function; Get the Process Right and Results Will Follow; Lean Support—Accounting for Value; Responsibility for Quality; The End of the Herbie Story—Managing Purpose, Process, and People; Lean Purpose; Lean Process; Lean People; Improve R&D Efficiency—It Is OK to be Selfish; Lean Expectations and Endurance; Notes; ; Lean Never Ends; Lean Courage; Get Started; Notes; ; Index
• Publisher Details: New York : Productivity Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 658.5; Lean manufacturing -- Case studies; New products -- Case studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781482259698
• Related ISBNs: 9781482259681
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