At least half of all product launches fail to live up to companies’ expectations. For every four projects that enter development, only one makes it to market, according to a recent study at Georgetown ...

Relentlessly improve through lean is the operational strategy at Watlow. Here, employees review performance at the gemba. A skilled welder isn’t born fully fledged. Neither is a superior athlete or an ...

The command-and-control hierarchical organization of large companies is rapidly giving way to a more biological metaphor, one in which a corporate nervous system senses important signals from the ...

While Lean principles have been known and applied in a variety of manufacturing processes, the applications in product development have been slower to come. Several companies have also applied Lean to ...