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Design Team Revolution: How to Cut Lead Times in Half and Double Your Productivity
Design Team Revolution How to Cut Lead Times in Half and Double Your Productivity Author:Keisuke Arai, Kenichi Sekine Managers of design departments face numerous obstacles and questions when trying to make internal changes, including ?
Identifying waste in the design process
Eliminating bottlenecks
Reducing repetition to an absolute minimum
Knowing when to employ parallel design instead of letting a designer wo... more »rk on a project from start to finish
In this text, consultants Sekine and Arai first identify the difficulties of transforming designers from isolated, multi-project employees to team-based, production-style workers. They then explain how the latest production improvement tools such as U-cell design, one-piece flow, and waste elimination methods elicit maximum productivity from designers. A hands-on training for dramatically increasing the output of design departments, this comprehensive guide is filled with exercises, charts, Q&A, and a successful real world case study. Reaching far beyond theoretical discussion, it offers all of the information, data, and tools needed to immediately implement improvement.« less