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The Mastery of Innovation
book

The Mastery of Innovation

by Katherine Radeka
October 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
265 pages
7h 3m
English
Productivity Press
Content preview from The Mastery of Innovation
162  •  Lean Product Development: Make it Work!
LAMDA: SYSTEMATIC PROBLEM SOLVING
FOR PRODUCT DEVELOPERS
PDCA is the most common systematic problem-solving method in
Lean inking. PDCA stands for Plan–Do–Check–Act. When W.
Edwards Deming went to Japan in the 1950s to teach operational
excellence, he taught PDCA. Over the next 30 years, Toyota embed-
ded PDCA into its management systems that became known as Lean.
On its own, PDCA will not help a problem solver remember to dene
a good problem, to analyze the root causes, to consult stakeholders,
and to think through the hypotheses that a Do step will test.
Allen Ward developed LAMDA in the ...
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ISBN: 9781439877067