Lean Advancement Initiative: Recent submissions

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    • Measuring Value in Product Development 

      Smith, Jim (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000-03)
      “What is value in product development?” is the key question of this paper. The answer is critical to the creation of lean in product development. By knowing how much value is added by product development (PD) activities, ...

    • Lean Transition of Emerging Industrial Capability (LeanTEC) 

      Shroyer, E. (2002-03)
      Lean Transition of Emerging Industrial Capability (LeanTEC) program was a cooperative agreement between the Boeing Company and AFRL conducted from January 1998 to January 2002. The results of this program are documented ...

    • Implementation Workshop: High Performance Work Organizations 

      Klein, Jan; Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Joel; Barrett, Betty (Masschusetts Institute of Technology, 1997-04)
      Since the rise of the industrial revolution, there are few challenges that compare in scale and scope with the challenge of implementing lean principles in order to achieve high performance work systems. This report ...