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Lean Product Development (LPD) Enablers for Product Development Process Improvement

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The enablers are recommended to improve the performance of Lean New Product Development (NPD) processes. This chapter presents an alternative to select enablers for improving the implementation of Lean NPD according to the difficulties of the company’s NPD process. Based on this literature review, a questionnaire was developed to identify the level of implementation for the Lean NPD enablers and the frequency of occurrence of each problem in the portfolio of NPD projects. The likelihood of the implementation of the Lean NPD enabler to decrease the frequency of NPD problems is represented by the correlation level between Lean NPD enablers and problems. The comprehension around this subject allows project managers to drive the NPD process improvement to lean culture, saving resources and maximizing the benefits of this effort.

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  1. Industrial Engineering Department, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, Brazil

    Guilherme Luz Tortorella & Diego de Castro Fettermann

  2. Department of Management Sciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

    Giuliano Almeida Marodin

  3. Industrial Engineering Department, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Flávio Sanson Fogliatto

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Tortorella, G.L., de Castro Fettermann, D., Marodin, G.A., Fogliatto, F.S. (2015). Lean Product Development (LPD) Enablers for Product Development Process Improvement. In: Davim, J. (eds) Research Advances in Industrial Engineering. Management and Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17825-7_3

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