The Toyota Product Development System: Integrating People, Process And Technology

It is always useful to read how a world-class organization like Toyota defines and improves its work processes... This book shows how Toyota executes its product development strategies through an emphasis on technical excellence, process discipline and continuous improvement ... In other words, the Toyota system product development system is focused on technical excellence for the long term using teamwork and employee empowerment... This is a great book written by people who actually worked at Toyota.

This book is a tremendous guide about how to develop products in a lean way. It's not a technical book there aren't any formula, but estimulate us to reflect about the social-technical environment which envolve the product developement and how to develop remarkables products. I love this book!!

Toyota is agreat example for a consumer technology company. Reading that you can understand better the DNA of Toyota success and growth, before and after 2006 when it was published.

Knowing how to eliminate waste is one thing , understanding how to do it in product development is something everyone should know.

This book breaks down product design with simple suggestions on how to make the process work. I have no doubt that this book describes what the future of product design will look like.

This book is useful for describing the Toyota Way in product development. Toyota uses techniques that are new, compared both to "lean" and to the Toyota Production System. For example, Toyota has layered approaches to managing technological risk, uses checklists to apply lessons learned, and makes their Chief Engineers the Voice Of The Customer. This is great stuff. However, the context of Toyota vehicle development is limited. The authors say (in italics) that most of Toyota Product Development is of derivative product vehicles built on existing product platforms. Further, most platforms are not radically different from prior platforms. The authors do briefly describe the development of the Prius. This adds a great deal to the book, but it still leaves a hole.Vehicle customers don't much change their minds during product development. In other words, as long as vehicle development takes, vehicle customer tastes change slower. This is not true in many of the markets that our most successful companies compete in. For techniques to address product development in fast-changing markets, there are two other sources of information: Donald Reinertsen and agile software development. The authors list Reinertsen's second book, "Managing the Design Factory," in their bibliography, but I didn't find other references to him -- I suspect the authors learned a great deal from him. Reinertsen now has a third book out that is "must" reading if you are in this kind of market. Second, no industry has done more thinking and experimenting in product development than the software industry, and "agile software techniques" is the umbrella term for such memorable methods as "scrum," and "extreme programming." Both Reinertsen and agile are rich in insight and method. I recommend the book, but treat it as background if your market is fast-moving.

good, I like it.

Great book explaining some of the aspects of how Toyota does so well.