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Why You Need This Book
Introduction
We have been fortunate to travel throughout the world assisting companies and
organizations in developing and implementing their own Lean enterprise sys-
tems. We have come to a point in our work at which we see a real opportunity
for companies and organizations that have had success in their Lean enterprise
implementation to improve even further using their success to win new business.
This book is written to assist your facility in developing a New Product
Acquisition and Launch Portfolio so that your facility can win, better understand,
and be more profitable with new business. By developing the file that w ...