Today, a company's capability to conceive and design quality prototypes and bring a variety of superior products to market quicker than its competitors is increasingly the focal point of competition, contend leading product development experts Steven Wheelwright and Kim Clark. Drawing on six years of in-depth, systematic, worldwide research, they present proven principles for developing the critical capabilities for speed, efficiency, and quality that have worked again and again in scores of successful Japanese, American, and European fast-cycle firms. 
 The authors argue that to survive, let alone succeed, today's companies must construct a new "platform" -- with new methodologies -- on which they can compete. Using their model for development strategies, Wheelwright and Clark show that firms can create a solid architecture for the integration of marketing, manufacturing, and design functions for problem solving and fast action -- particularly during the critical design-build-test cycles of prototype creation. 
 They demonstrate further how successful firms such as Honda in automobiles, Compaq in personal computers, Applied Materials in semi-conductors, Sony in audio equipment, The Limited in apparel, and Hill-Rom in hospital beds have employed recent methodologies to bring new products to market at break-neck speed. Such innovations include design for manufacturability, quality function deployment, computer-aided design, and computer-aided engineering. 
 Finally, Wheelwright and Clark emphasize the importance of learning in the organization. Companies that consistently "design it right the first time" and follow a path of continuous improvement in product and process development have a formidable edge in the crucial race to market.

Revolutionizing Product Development: Quantum Leaps in Speed, Efficiency, and Quality

Business & Money

Wheelwright, Steven C.

Management & Leadership

Free Press

Leading Product Development: The Senior Manager's Guide to Creating and Shaping the Enterprise

Covers pre-project planning, choosing projects that match the strategic objectives of the company, and determining project sequence, measurement, and incentives

U.S. manufacturing is today in a critical period. As a consequence of new global competitors, changes in technologies, and significant shifts in national priorities, our manufacturing base has shrunk alarmingly and thousands of manufacturing jobs have been lost. To address this problem, a unique team was formed called the Manufacturing Vision Group, which included members from five major companies (Chaparral Steel, DEC, Ford Motor Company, Hewlett-Packard, and Eastman Kodak) and four major universities (Harvard, MIT, Purdue, and Stanford). In The Perpetual Enterprise Machine, this group argues that the manufacturer that can initiate successful projects--leading to new products and processes--will be the one that prospers in the years ahead. They reveal how to launch a successful project and how projects can be mechanisms for growth and learning for the firm. The Perpetual Enterprise Machine outlines seven critical elements that outstanding development projects have in common, principles that can be powerful engines of success for the manufacturer facing the challenges of today's fiercely competitive environment. Successful firms are able to use their Core Capabilities across functions, to bring together disciplines and personnel crucial to the success of the program. They have a Guiding Vision, shared by all members of the project team, that helps coordinate the actions of workers with different skills and priorities. They Push the Performance Envelope, striving to make the improvements needed to cope with a rapidly changing competitive environment. They have Leadership, someone who can navigate uncertain terrain, who sees the project's essential elements and how they fit together. They instill the team with a sense of Ownership and Commitment, linking their personal success, status, and esteem to accomplishing project goals. They use Prototyping to learn rapidly and reduce mistakes. And they Integrate within Projects, approaching individual tasks in terms of a system-wide solution. Throughout the book, the authors illustrate these seven principles with real life case histories. We see the story behind Kodak's development of the FunSaver camera (done on a unique CAD/CAM system that greatly helped integration and shortened the lead time from design to production); Ford's 1991 Crown Victoria, the first project launched under their Concept-to-Customer system; Chaparral Steel's development of the world's first horizontal steel caster; and Hewlett-Packard's wildly successful DeskJet printer. The Perpetual Enterprise Machine delivers the insights of some of the top minds from industry and academia on one of the primary concerns of American business--how to revitalize our manufacturing industries. Visionary--yet engaging and immediately accessible--it gives managers the opportunity to profit from the trials and triumphs of five major corporations, and helps them shape the kinds of projects that will thrive and prosper in the years ahead.

The Perpetual Enterprise Machine: Seven Keys to Corporate Renewal through Successful Product and Process Development

Clark, Kim B.

Holloway, Charles A.

Bowen, H. Kent

Industries

Oxford University Press

Book by Makridakis, Spyros G., Wheelwright, Steven C.

Forecasting: Studies in the Management Sciences: Vol. 12

Makridakis, Spyros G.

Economics

Elsevier Science Ltd.

Since the first edition appeared in 1973, this work has been translated into ten languages. This Fifth Edition presents a broad range of forecasting techniques and their practical application, with discussion of each method's strengths and weaknesses. Chapters reflect recent developments in forecasting approaches and tools, and addresse the role of forecasting in the management process.

Forecasting Methods for Management (Wiley Medical Publication)

John Wiley&Sons

This problem solver offers a wealth of remedies for American industry's neglect of competitive manufacturing strategies and its resulting loss of productivity. Drawing upon the example of world-class and foreign manufacturers, the book illustrates what American industry must do in terms of manufacturing capability to regain a preeminent spot in the marketplace.

Restoring Our Competitive Edge: Competing Through Manufacturing

Hayes, Robert H.

wiley

The fourth edition of this classic source provides an overview of a broad range of forecasting techniques and an understanding of their strengths and weaknesses. No background in quantitiative methods is required. The new edition includes greater emphasis on the track record of forecasting, a refined approach to the quantitative methods, new material on monitoring, computer-based systems and empirical evidence of forecasting usage, and a complete update on technological and judgmental methods.

Forecasting Methods for Management (Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds,)

Since the first edition appeared in 1973, this work has been translated into ten languages. This Fifth Edition presents a broad range of forecasting techniques and their practical application, with discussion of each method's strengths and weaknesses. Chapters reflect recent developments in forecasting approaches and tools, and addresse the role of forecasting in the management process.

Forecasting Methods for Management

Finance

This innovative book sets forth two promising wireless approaches that support high-quality, high-speed data and multimedia service-multiple antenna technologies and cross layer transmitter adaptation designs-while highlighting the relationships and interactions between them. The latest advanced technologies of channel adaptation techniques for wireless communication systems with multiple antennas are thoroughly investigated. The book is divided into three parts, first giving readers a good foundation in underlying theory, then exploring applications as well as advanced topics: * Part 1 examines theoretical aspects of channel adaptation in wireless communications for point-to-point and multi-user systems with multiple antennas * Part 2 focuses on the applications of the channel-adaptive technologies in practical systems such as UMTS * Part 3 delves into topics such as multi-user scheduling for wideband systems, combined queuing theory and information theory, and ad hoc routing Using a hands-on, practical approach, Channel Adaptive Technologies and Cross Layer Designs for Wireless Systems with Multiple Antennas thoroughly covers detailed design considerations that help readers understand how to apply theory to real-world systems. Emphasis throughout the book is on joint optimization across different layers of a communications system based on an integrated approach. Examples of popular wireless systems, such as TDMA, wideband CDMA (UMTS), and HSDPA, are used throughout as practical illustrations. Each chapter ends with a summary that reviews key points and a set of problems that lets readers test their knowledge and continue to develop their skills as they progress to new topics. Figures and tables are also used extensively to help readers visualize complex theory and systems. Combining theory, design, and application into one integrated approach, this is a superior reference for advanced communications theory courses.

Operations, Strategy, and Technology: Pursuing the Competitive Edge

Pisano, Gary P.

Upton, David M.

Hayes is a founder of the Operations Strategy field, and all four authors are on the Harvard Business School faculty. In Operations, Strategy, and Technology: Pursuing the Competitive Edge--the long-awaited follow-up to the highly successful classic, Restoring Our Competitive Edge--Bob Hayes, Gary Pisano, Dave Upton, and Steve Wheelwright take a fresh look at the foundations of corporate success. This book addresses the basic principles that guide the development of a powerful operations organization, and describes how a company's operating and technological resources can be applied to create a sustainable competitive advantage in today's "new" (global and IT-intensive) economy. Achieving a competitive advantage through superior operations is what the authors refer to as the "operations edge."

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Revolutionizing Product Development: Quantum Leaps in Speed, Efficiency, and Quality

Leading Product Development: The Senior Manager's Guide to Creating and Shaping the Enterprise

The Perpetual Enterprise Machine: Seven Keys to Corporate Renewal through Successful Product and Process Development

Forecasting: Studies in the Management Sciences: Vol. 12

Forecasting Methods for Management (Wiley Medical Publication)

Restoring Our Competitive Edge: Competing Through Manufacturing

Forecasting Methods for Management (Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds,)

Forecasting Methods for Management

Operations, Strategy, and Technology: Pursuing the Competitive Edge

Operations, Strategy, and Technology: Pursuing the Competitive Edge