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The Lean Product Development
Benchmarking Study
e companies who provided stories for this book have mastered inno-
vation with Lean Product Development. ey have demonstrated that a
company can reduce time to market by more than half, triple R & D capac-
ity, and lower costs using Lean Product Development methods—and that
the company can keep getting better.
What about the long-term results? e companies featured here have
ve years of experience with Lean Product Development, on average. As
of April 2012, all of the Lean Product Development practices that you will
nd in this book are still in use within these companies. All of them have