Creating a Lean R&D System

Business Management / Lean Methods & Implementation / Product Development

The ability to nd and remove barriers between peo ple and their systems

in R&D can almost guarantee a doubling in performance, and often

delivers multiples of that. R&D teams that have smooth handoffs deliver

100 percent of the required knowledge at those handoffs. As a result,

such teams do not lose critical information, have unexpected knowledge

gaps appear in their projects, or have uncoordi nated knowledge transfers

that waste minutes, days, and even months every year.

Creating a Lean R&D System: Lean Principles and Approaches

for Pharmaceutical and Research-Based Organizations lays out

the logic of why Lean implementation isn’t strictly for manufacturing

and describes why it can be just as effective in R&D organizations.

Terence Barnhart, former senior director of continuous improvement

at Pzer R&D, describes the theoretical and physical underpinnings of

creating a Lean transformation in any R&D organization, as exemplied

by the Lean transformation initiated within the R&D division of a global

pharmaceutical company.

Describing how to merge Lean principles with the cultural virtues

inherent in R&D, the book presents Lean approaches that can be easily

applied in pharmaceutical and research-based organizations. It takes a

strategic approach to solving two problems unique to the Lean eld. The

rst is in noting the key distinctions between R&D and manufacturing,

and developing a Lean approach specic to the R&D environment. The

second is that it proposes a systematic middle-out (merger/maneuver)

strategy to help you initiate and sustain a Lean culture within your

pharmaceutical R&D organization that will help you immediately engage

all stakeholders involved.

Creating a Lean R&D System

Lean Principles and Approaches for Pharmaceutical

and Research-Based Organizations

Barnhart

Terence M. Barnhart

Creating a

Lean R

&D

System

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Creating a

Lean R

&D

System

Lean Principles and Approaches

for Pharmaceutical and

Research-Based Organizations

Creating a

Lean R

&D

System

Lean Principles and Approaches

for Pharmaceutical and

Research-Based Organizations

Terence M. Barnhart

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