Clifford Fiore

Product: book
ISBN-10: 1-56327-310-1
ISBN-13: 9781563273100
Publisher: Productivity Press
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Year: December 8, 2004
Edition: 1
Size: 15.24 x 23.11 x 1.78cm
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 408gr
Binding: hardback

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Product Description
In today's business environment, a company's ability to provide products to the marketplace quickly and cheaply is the key to survival. The lifeblood of many companies rests in the product development processes that enable them to provide a continual stream of new products that are better, cheaper, and reach the customer faster than the competition.

In Accelerated Product Development: Combining Lean and Six Sigma for Peak Performance, Clifford Fiore provides the blueprint for implementing the key elements for improving the product development process. His innovative and powerful work represents the first book to couple the proven concepts of Lean and Six Sigma with the engineering processes of product development. His results, based on proven strategies and methodologies, enable companies to significantly reduce the time necessary to develop new products, dramatically reduce product cost, and improve product quality.

Review of Accelerated Product Development
Well written, concise, but a little confusing. Maybe it's just me but a lot of the visuals complicate matters instead of help understanding.

• Business & Economics
• Business & Economics – Finance
• Business & Economics – Quality Control
• Development – Business Development
• Manufacturing
• Marketing – Product Management
• New products
• Office Automation
• Production & Operations Management
• Production management
• Quality Control
• Six sigma (Quality control sta
• Six sigma (Quality control standard)

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2.) The Lean Product Development Guidebook
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Technology Perspectives; 2007
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3.) The Toyota Product Development System
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4.) Product Development for the Lean Enterprise
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Oaklea Press; 2008
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