Are We Brainstorming the Right Way?

Posted by Bart Huthwaite on Sep 18, 2012 in Bart's Blog, Implementing Lean Design | 0 comments

The LEAN Design Innovation Cube method uses individual thought before group discussion. The graphic below does an excellent job of making the case. Source: www.mavenlink.com

Your Customers’ Eight Primary Values

Posted by Bart Huthwaite on Dec 9, 2011 in Implementing Lean Design | 0 comments

All customers desire eight basic benefits from a product. People may express these values in many different ways, but they underlie every customer’s wishes. For example, all customers want performability: the assurance that the product will function the way they expect. This can be expressed in many ways, such as speed attained, weight lifted and time taken to accomplish a task Customers also...

What Does “Lean Product Design” Really Mean?

Posted by Bart Huthwaite on Dec 8, 2011 in What is Lean Design? | 0 comments

In my daily work with lean champions, I sometimes find confusion about the words “lean product design.” Many people are frustrated by how to explain lean design in a clear, persuasive way. “Lean Product Design” means two things, as both a verb and a noun. As a noun it’s a product that has been created to deliver high value with low waste. As a verb the term describes the design process...

Lean Design Versus Lean Manufacturing

Posted by Bart Huthwaite on Nov 30, 2011 in What is Lean Design? | 0 comments

Lean manufacturing and lean design are entirely different entities. Lean Design: How you design your product will drive more than 75% of success. Both the process and the product that results from it must deliver greater value with less waste than conventional product efforts. Lean Manufacturing: – Lean Manufacturing is a unified, comprehensive set of philosophies, rules, guidelines,...

Measure Your Innovation Solutions

Posted by Bart Huthwaite on May 25, 2011 in Innovation Cube | 0 comments

Compares new solutions against “current state” baselines Enables side-by-side comparison of many different solutions. Helps you “screen” many innovations to find the best Sets up measurement system that goes well beyond “Cost, Schedule & Technical Performance Side 6 of the CUBE will be used through out the process of innovation. Spider charts...

CUBE Side #5 – Helps You to Systematically Find New Ideas

Posted by Bart Huthwaite on May 25, 2011 in Innovation Cube | 0 comments

Creates matrix for applying Ideas to Things to solve Wants. Gives you the eight questions for surfacing new ideas Focuses your innovation search Shows you examples of how others have used same thinking. Side 5 of the CUBE will be used to break down the ideas created on side 4 even further. Using a matrix of questions the ideas will be broken into pieces using eight tactics...