Ready, Set, Dominate: Implement Toyota's Set-based Learning for Developing Products and Nobody Can Catch You | 
 enlarge | Authors: Michael Kennedy, Kent Harmon, Ed Minnock
Publisher: Oaklea Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 296
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 1892538407
Dewey Decimal Number: 658
EAN: 9781892538406
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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In 2003 Product Development for the Lean Enterprise by Michael Kennedy was published and promptly turned product development in major corporations on its head. Now, five years later, comes a continuation of that book, including case histories that identify the pitfalls and lessons learned in implementing the Toyota product development system. The authors also show how Toyota's set-based learning system can be adapted and adopted by all areas of a business in order to produce major advantages over the competition. Whether a group of engineers is developing new cars, software applications, aerospace equipment, kitchen appliances, controls, sensors, or any of hundreds of different items, the process they follow is pretty much the same, except in one company -- Toyota, perhaps the most innovative and highly respected car company on the planet. Companies that are early adopters of the Toyota system are certain to realize tremendous advantages over their competitors. This is a change that is coming to businesses everywhere and this book shows the way. It is a must-read for anyone in management.
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If you're serious about the Toyota Way in product development ... April 30, 2008
J. A. Morrow (Seattle, WA United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the second of Kennedy's books and, like the first, most of it's in the form of a business novel. Those familiar with product development in Western firms will find all of the characters familiar - sometimes painfully so.
What sets the new book apart is inclusion of two powerful case studies of committed implementation of set-based (problem solving/knowledge-based) product development. Tellingly, both case study firms were not experimenting with this approach, their senior executives were committed to making it work. The results have been spectacular and compelling.
In a nutshell: Kennedy is selling something valuable. Like a good salesman, his first book Product Development for the Lean Enterprise: Why Toyota's System Is Four Times More Productive and How You Can Implement It conveys his sympathy for how you FEEL the pain and shows how he's FELT it, too (from years in U.S. aerospace/high tech firms). This book's case studies explain what he's FOUND to really solve those problems.
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