Lean Product Development (LPD) provides guiding principles and tools for improving the product development process in terms of increasing productivity and eliminating waste, which combined with Time to Market Compression produce world class products and performance. The main objectives of Lean Product Development (LPD) or Lean New Product Introduction are increased productivity and eliminating waste and rework in a company's Product Development Process and the adoption of a lean mindset and culture..

Guiding principles include:Guiding principles include:

Understanding the financial and economic aspects of productivity, waste and bottlenecks

Understanding and managing product value to customers

Enabling and controlling Flow in Product Development from Pull vs Push and cadence

Measuring resources and capacity and using Value Streams and queuing theory to manage bottlenecks

Exploiting feedback loops to achieve ‘real time’ control

Product Development Process Optimisation

We have found that the best results are achieved by combining Lean Product Development (LPD) guidelines and tools with those used in Time to Market Compression (TtMC). A mix and match of tools and methods allows the various parameters of product development to be optimised for the specific challenges which a company is facing.

For example:
Variability in Product or Service operations and support
Time to Market and Cross-functional working
Productivity of people and product development process
Product Development Reward, including: sales revenue; market share; volumes, ……
Product Development Risk, including: product and service risks, project risks, …..
Resources for product development, including: people; skills, money, ………

We call this integrated approach for implementing Lean Product Development by the title "Quicker Better Leaner Product Development (QBLPD)". QBLPD comprises:

> A set of guidelines for introducing, integrating (with your business processes) and implementing in projects.
> A toolkit for practical implementation
> Software and templates for management of process and projects
> Training workshops and skills transfer

We are experienced in adapting and applying Lean Product Development (LPD) methods and tools for a client's specific situation using a variety of implementation programmes and a database of tools.

Toolkits:
Our approach installs an advanced set of tools to help achieve improvements and results. We assemble these tools into a toolkit for for a client's specific situation. Examples of tools include:

Time Holes maps
Value Streams
Gemba
MoSCoW rules
Value Proposition
NPD Frameworks: Concurrency of Phases and Tasks Charts
Milestone Plan and RACI Chart
Product Development Milestone Tracker
Resource and Capacity Histograms
PD Process Optimisation

Software Packages and Templates
Many of the tools are provided with Excel or Web based software packages or templates to facilitate practical use and ease of learning.

Implementation Programme
Each programme is tailored to the client's situation, but typically comprises the following deliverables: Product Development healthcheck, Time Hole, Value Stream and Flow Mapping, tailoring of toolkits, delivery of facilitated workshops and software.
A typical programme comprises:

Product Development healthcheck, Time Hole, Value and Flow Mapping

Agreement of programme deliverables

Tailoring of guidelines, toolkit and software for client's specifics

Facilitated workshops, 1:1 and 1:n coaching

Off-line telephone and e-mail support

Skills transfer to key individuals or training programme. Agreement of programme deliverables

Free Proposal
We can provide a free proposal, including programme outline with costing, to meet your requirements - please contact us.

We can also provide a formal in house training programme on the above topics, tailored to your specific needs. For more details click below:

Lean Product Development Training Workshop

For information relating to allied topics, click on the links below

New Product Introduction (NPI) or New Product Development (NPD)
Product Definition (PD) and pragmatic Quality Function Deployment (pQFD)
Product Marketing and Management
Time to Market Control and Compression (TtMCC)
Product Innovation with Market, Technology and Process Innovation
Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) or Six Sigma Product Development (SSPD) implementation programme
Product Development Training Course Workshop
Product Development, Marketing and Management Software Applications
Time to Market Product Development Healthcheck Assessment Audit