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Steelcase: Go-and-See New
Customers to Open New Markets
Is Lean Product Development the only path to the mastery of innovation?
I said in Chapter 1 that Lean Product Development encompassed a
broad range of practices and philosophies, all geared to maximize value
and minimize waste. Toyota’s production system is justiably the model
for Lean manufacturing. In product development, Toyota also had some
great ideas, especially the way that systematic problem solving expressed
itself in Toyota’s development centers. However, product developers need
to look beyond Toyota to other companies that have developed their own
ways to maximize va ...