Do you need to get your ideas to market faster without spending more money or compromising quality?
Wouldn't your innovations get to market faster if you could eliminate the root causes of the problems in late development that delay product releases?
If you don't understand why your products take as long as they do to get to market, you could be leaving a lot of value on the table for your company and your customers, without even realizing it!
Lean product development helps you understand the drivers of value, the sources of waste and the best practices that help product development flow through the system. It eliminates the friction in product development so that you can get your ideas to market faster without compromising quality or increasing cost.
Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011) was the quintessential Innovation Master. Read my perspective on Jobs' contributions to the field of innovation in this free Knowledge Brief: Steve Jobs: Master of Innovation
What Can Lean Product Development Do?
Lean product development helped Playworld Systems of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania cut time to market in half - twice - in two years.
Read the August 2011 article from Target Magazine:
You can also listen to Brett Barrick, Director of Product Development describe how Playworld achieved these results.
The Lean Product Development Resource Center
The Lean Product Development Resource Center is a free knowledge supermarket for lean product developers. It contains a wealth of information to give you ideas and insights into the sources of value and waste in product development.
The resources here will help you use lean product development to get your best ideas out into the market faster, by improving the flow of work in product development from strategy development through ideation, concept evaluation, detailed design and launch.
I have a wealth of templates, examples, Knowledge Briefs, articles and more!
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This web site is meant to provide the best available information about lean product development, including best practices for maximizing value in product development, implementation strategies, leading cultural change and building sustainable product development frameworks.
“Katherine's experience as a product development manager, insightful teacher and LPD expert is unique and rare in the Western hemisphere.”
Jorge Wong, VP of Operational Excellence, MedTech Group
West Haven, Connecticut, USA
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Do You Want the Basics First?
You have come to the right place. Here are four articles to get you off to a good start:
Seven Practice Areas of Lean Product Development: How Lean Product Development Delivers Results. If you came here through Google, you know that there are many conflicting views of lean product development. These are the seven practice areas that deliver the best results for my clients and community members.
LAMDA: PDCA for Knowledge Workers Rapid learning cycles are at the core of lean thinking. LAMDA is a rapid learning cycle with its roots in PDCA, but tailored for the world that product developers live in every day.
Three More Reasons Why You Should Sign Up
The knowledge on this site is actionable, pragmatic and grounded in over twenty years of product development experience, eight of it with lean product development.
My clients and friends have tested these ideas for you, and they are happy to share how our work has helped them get their ideas to market faster.
The Resource Center is constantly growing. I launched the site two years ago with twenty resources. Now there are over one hundred. I write at least one Knowledge Brief each week, and often devise a template or example to go with it. Only the members of the Resource Center get access to the newest resources.
Finally, please join me for the next
Knowledge Brief of the Week
Each Friday, I publish a new Knowledge Brief to jump-start a conversation on a fascinating aspect of lean product development. Join us for these complimentary sessions on Friday morning. Not only will this help accelerate your learning process, it will also help you get to know other lean product development explorers who are part of this community.
February 10:
Lean Product Development for Advanced R & D:
Steps Towards the Fully-Realized Lean Product Development Organization
February 17:
Lean Leaders Have Their Own Problems to Solve:
Middle Managers in the Lean Product Development Organization
February 24:
Process Flow Variants:
Value Stream Maps Aren't The Only Game in Town
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Ready for More?
Katherine Radeka helps you get your ideas to market faster. When you are ready to get serious about putting lean product development into practice to help you shorten time to market, increase R & D capacity or lower costs, she is ready to help.
She knows how to tailor lean product development to meet the needs of companies ranging from the Fortune 100 to family firms earning $10 - $50 million per year, in a wide variety of industries.
Her clients say that she is tough where it counts, but easy to work with and deeply knowledgeable.
