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In parallel to the Lean Product Development Best Practices Discovery Project, we are launching the Lean Product Development Worldwide Survey, to identify trends, good practices, challenges and future opportunities practitioners have been facing during their Lean Product Development journey. Lean product development/innovation practitioners participating in the survey will receive a free copy of the final report. This global survey is open until January 31st, 2017. Don’t miss this great opportunity!
Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is one of the key methodologies used to start a lean journey. It has been successfully applied in manufacturing processes and is now becoming increasingly used in the innovation and product development processes to reduce cycle time and identify improvement opportunities. It also provides a simple and quick way to visualize all activities that deliver value and eliminate those that generate waste.
The 1st Lean Product Development Networking and Learning Forum in Lausanne, Switzerland took place on October 29-31, 2015. This 3-day event brought together lean practitioners from around the world to network, showcase, share their best practices and discuss current and future challenges.
Organisations are continuously pressured to launch new products and services to gain competitive advantage and satisfy highly demanding global market. And most of this pressure is directed towards product development teams, where majority of organisations still follow traditional or so called stage-gate processes. Although stage-gate process works, it is not flexible enough and tends to constrain creativity and innovation.