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Book SynopsisAdvance praise for Developing Products in Half the Time Second Edition New Rules, New Tools Preston G. Smith * Donald G. Reinertsen This is an exceptional book! Get a new highlighter before you start. There are so many ''ah ha''s'' in each chapter you will never make it through with an old one. Don LaCombe, Ford Motor Company, Product Development Process Leadership An excellent book with a strong treatment of the cycle-time consequences of overloading your development capacity. It provides powerful and practical concepts for dealing with this issue. Andrew Aquart, Director Product Development, Cordis, a Johnson & Johnson Company This is practical, useful stuff for people competing in highly competitive fast moving business. Dr. Paul Borrill, Chief Scientist, Sun Microsystems 3M has absorbed many of the tools from the original edition, and this new one will be even more useful. The topic of incremental innovation is crucial to us, and I really appreciate its balanced treatment. Ronald H
Table of ContentsBiographies xiv
Forward xv
Preface xvii
Faster and Still Faster 1
Putting a Price Tag on Time 21
The Fuzzy Front End 49
The Power and Pitfalls of Incremental Innovation 67
Capturing Customer Needs 85
Using System Design to Compress Schedules 105
Forming and Energizing the Team 119
Organizing for Communication 139
Designing Fast Development Processes 163
Controlling the Process 185
Preventing Overloads 205
Managing Risk Proactively 221
Bridging the R&D Manufacturing Gap 241
The Role of Top Management 261
Making Changes Faster 277
Index 291
