Browsing Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI) by Title
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Tailoring the prototyping process to achieve customer value
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)The main objective for prototyping is to get the most value out of the opportunity. Value may take the form of information, performance, displaying production readiness or proving capability for the amount of resources ... -
Targeting Project Outcomes with Selected PD Enabling Factors
(2003-10-01)Presentation on using PD enabling factors to target project outcomes -
Teaching an Engineering Systems Doctoral Seminar: Concepts and Structure
(2009-06-15)This paper describes the current state of the evolving engineering systems doctoral seminar in the Engineering Systems Division (ESD) at MIT. This subject is required for all first year engineering systems doctoral ... -
Teaching an Engineering Systems Doctoral Seminar: Concepts and Structure
(2009-06-15)Second International Symposium on Engineering Systems presentation -
Teaching Lean Thinking Principles Through Hands-on Simulations
(2007-06-11)The teaching of Lean Enterprise Thinking in the aerospace context requires that students understand a complex subject—aerospace enterprises and their transformation—in a deep and intuitive way. Without this context, the ... -
Teaching Lean Thinking Principles Through Hands-on Simulations
(2007-06-11)The teaching of Lean Enterprise Thinking in the aerospace context requires that students understand a complex subject—aerospace enterprises and their transformation—in a deep and intuitive way. Without this context, the ... -
Team Learning Strategies for Enterprise Transformation: The Case of Vicarious Learning
(2004-03-24)Presentation on vicarious team learning for enterprise transformation -
Technical Report Value of Systems Engineering
(2004-10)This report is a follow-on from the June 2004 Air Force/Lean Aerospace Initiative Workshop on Systems Engineering for Robustness. -
Technology development and business strategy : a changing environment impacts practices
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997) -
Technology, Government, Business, and Universities: The Innovation Ecosystem
(2007-10-01)The purpose of this presentation is to present an overview of the roles of the government, business enterprises, and universities in the promotion and creation of innovation. Our approach is to present key concepts, ... -
Test and Evaluation of a SoS using a Prescriptive and Adaptive Testing Framework
(2010-06-22)Testers need the ability to adapt test planning on the order of days and weeks. PATFrame will use its reasoning engine to prescribe the most effective strategies for the situation at hand. Strategies in this context include ... -
Textron Systems Sensor Fuzed Weapon VSM Event: Using LAI Tools to Transform a Program Enterprise
(2005-03-23)LAI Plenary Conference presentation -
A Theory of Objective Sizing
(2006-05-23)The process of building parametric models to estimate the cost of large scale complex systems have recently uncovered unanticipated challenges. The most difficult of which includes the ability to define the boundary of ... -
Three Views of Product Development Complexity
(2001-04-10)Lean Aerospace Initiative Plenary Conference presentation -
Three-Dimensional Concurrent Engineering: Clockspeed-based Principles for Product, Process, and Supply Chain Development
(1998-03)I. Introduction & Motivation II. Fruit Flies & Clockspeed III. Supply Chain Design/Development matters IV. 3-D Concurrency--an architectural approach V. 3-D Concurrency--two at a time VI. Conclusions -
Tools for evolutionary acquisition : a study of Multi-Attribute Tradespace Exploration (MATE) applied to the Space Based Radar (SBR)
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003) -
Toward a theory of the evolution of business ecosystems : enterprise architectures, competitive dynamics, firm performance & industrial co-evolution
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)This dissertation contributes toward the building of a theory of the evolution of business ecosystems. In the process, it addresses a question that has been posed by evolutionary theorists in the economics and sociology ... -
Toward Lean Hardware/Software System Development: Evaluation of Selected Complex Electronic System Development Methodologies
(1995-02)As part of the Lean Aircraft Initiative, a research program studying the applicability of lean production principles to the defense aircraft industry sponsored by the Air Force and over 20 aerospace companies, this report ... -
Towards a Framework of Research Methodology Choices in Systems Engineering
(2010-03-17)8th Annual Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER) -
Towards a Holistic, Total Engineering Cost Model
(2009-07-19)In this paper, we explore a new approach for a unified and interdisciplinary model for estimating the total engineering effort in developing and delivering a parametric software-intensive complex system. We begin by ...