SMART Maturity Assessment

Once your organization has acquired an understanding regarding the benefits of implementing lean principles in product development, the second step proposed in our DARE methodology is to perform an assessment to identify your maturity level of already implemented lean product development practices.

SMART Maturity Assessment is a tool that enables a qualitative assessment of the company´s maturity level of implemented lean principles and practices in product development and innovation.

BENEFITS OF SMART MATURITY ASSESSMENT

Awareness

Increase lean awareness in your organization

Maturity

Obtain your current maturity level of implemented lean practices

Relevance

Identify the most relevant company-specific lean practices

Improvement

Identify and understand the opportunity areas and gaps

Roadmap

Develop an accurate roadmap based on the discovered opportunity areas

Strategy

Identify the progress of your lean journey and future directions

SMART Maturity Assessment consists of 56 qualitative lean practices that have to be assessed by the company based on the following five possible maturity levels:

START: No Lean practice application in Product Development Process.

MOTIVATE: Awareness of the benefit brought by the Lean practice but without a formal methodology to implement it.

APPLY: Initial application of the Lean Practices to the corporation’s PD Process following an informal method.

REVIEW: Implementation of the Lean Practice into the PD Process at specific stages following a formal method with reviewed and analyzed results.

TRANSFORMED: Full implementation of the Lean Practice into the PD Process in all the stages of the Product Development Process following a formal method.

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