Creating a lean R & D system : lean principles and approaches for pharmaceutical and research-based organizations /: lean principles and approaches for pharmaceutical and research-based organizations. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Terence M. Barnhart.
• Other Names: Barnhart, Terence M
• Contents: Seeing and Removing Barriers in the R&D Environment; Mental Models; Removing Barriers to Innovation; Impact on R&D Innovation; Physical Barriers Emotional Barriers Observational and Thinking Barriers; Lean and the Removal of Barriers Lean in Research and Development; Purpose; Continuous Improvement in Manufacturing and R&D; The Purpose of Lean; What Lean Is ; Lean R&D; Implications; Connection with People; Conclusions The Individual in the Lean R&D Community; The Individual/Community Continuum in R&D An Example of the Lean R&D Community; Qualities of the Individual in a Lean Environment Commitment; Commitment to Craft; Commitment to the Team; Awareness of the Community; Skill at Learning; Pulling It Together Lean Exercises for the R&D Professional; Seeing; Skill-Building Exercise 1: Seeing without Prior Mental Context; Skill-Building Exercise 2: Seeing Beliefs; Reframing to Innovate; Deconstruction and Synthesis to Increase Value Content; Making Snowmobiles; The Role of Language in Reframing for Innovation; Skill-Building Exercise 3: Reframing by Converting Statements into Questions; Skill-Building Exercise 4: Seeing and Reframing through Value Stream Mapping; Skill-Building Exercise 5: Reframing by Making Snowmobiles; The Value of Experience in Innovation; Skill-Building Exercise 6: Improving Innovation Experience through Daily Experimental Practice; Growing Yourself and Your Environment; Practice to Grow; Pulling It Together—Seeing, Reframing, Experiencing, and Growing: A Learning Loop for Innovation; Integrated Exercises; Skill-Building Exercise 7: The A3 Format; Skill-Building Exercise 8: Good-Better-Best; Skill-Building Exercise 9: Mapping; Apply Liberally; Apply in Your Work, Start Small, Grow in Scale, and Spread Outward The A3 in Developing R&D Thinking; Description of the A3; Purpose of the A3; Section 1: Problem Statement, Business Value, Performance Goals—Defining the Problem and the Terms for Its Successful Resolution; The First Step in Creating Thought Clarity—Separating Problem and Solution with a Well-Constructed Problem Statement or Valuable Question; Business Value—Creating a Stage for Buy-In; Goals—Defining Criterion for Successful Completion, a.k.a. "When Do I Stop?"; Other Types of Stop-Gap Goals; Section 1 Summary; Section 2: Current State; Section 2 Summary; Section 3: Analysis/Synthesis—Finding the Root Cause of a Problem and Developing Countermeasures to Address Root Cause; Considerations in Analysis/Synthesis; Section 3 Summary; Section 4: The Learning Plan; Learning Plan Structure; Predicting Plan Timing; Building Fast Learning into Our Planning Process; Thinking and Cadence in the Learning Plan; Thoughts on the Learning Plan; Section 4 Summary; Section 5: Results and Future Considerations; Pulling It Together to Get the Most from the A3 The Lean R&D Manager; Skills a Lean Manager Must Possess; Seeing Exercises; Skill-Building Exercise 1: Seeing Group and System Dynamics in an External Setting; Skill-Building Exercise 2: Letting the Environment Tell You Its Problems; Skill-Building Exercise 3: Observing the Internal Environment (Walking the Gemba); Skill-Building Exercise 4: Seeing and Reframing through Mapping; Reframing Exercises; Skill-Building Exercise 5: Disbelieving Your Own Beliefs; Skill-Building Exercise 6: Identifying Other Possible Beliefs; Experience; Skill-Building Exercise 7: Small-Scale/High-Velocity Experimentation; Growth; Skill-Building Exercise 8: Setting Targets; Skill-Building Exercise 9: Assessing Performance and Reflecting on Results; Pulling It Together Removing Barriers within the R&D Community; Noninnovation Work; Supporting Basic Work Requirements; Supporting Interfaces; Supporting Management Systems; Seeing the Noninnovation Work; Creating Purpose; Seeing without Prejudice; Group Exercise 1: Seeing without Prejudice, the Current-State Value Stream Map; Issues in Value Stream Mapping in R&D; Group Exercise 2: Seeing Team Assumptions; Group Exercise 3: Bypass Assumptions Entirely—Critical Question Mapping; Reframing Exercises; Building Group Experience; Pulling It Together to Remove Barriers Critical Question Mapping; The Emergence of Critical Question Mapping; Developing Critical Question Maps; Step 1: Defining a Strategic Problem; Step 2: Brainstorming; Step 3: Arranging the Questions and Flow; Steps 4 and 5: Review and Iteration; Managing Creative and R&D Projects Using Critical Questions; CQM in the Real World Value Stream Mapping in the R&D Space; Scoping to Define Direction and Performance Level; The Design (Value Stream Mapping) Workshop; Current-State Mapping (Day 1); Analysis (Day 1); Analysis (Day 2); Future-State Mapping (Day 2); Creating the Learning Plan (Day 3); Management Intervention during Design and Planning; Implementation and Fast Learning; Learning and Review; Fast Learning and Strategies for Fast Learning; The Next Level: Linking the Project to Lean Strategy and the Learning Process Implementation Strategy; Using a Critical Question Map to Define a Strategic Thinking Structure; Flow and Learning Loops; Filling Gaps in the Questions; Methodology/Philosophy (Barrier Removal) Section of the Map; Converting the Critical Questions into a Strategy; Design of the First and
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton, FL : Taylor & Francis
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxiii, 243 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 658.5/7; Research; Lean manufacturing; Pharmaceutical industry; Lean manufacturing; Pharmaceutical industry; Research; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1322616582; 9781322616582; 9781466578944; 1466578947
• Related ISBNs: 9781439800782; 1439800782
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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