Whittier Consulting Group, Inc.
P.O. Box 859
Camas, WA. 98607
206-274-6179

Lean Product Development Champions:

Do you struggle with getting engagement from your partners in product development? Do your product development leaders unintentionally get in the way because they don't know how to support you?

Do you understand how to pull lean product development through the organization with effective leadership? Have you established a clear connection between the needs of the product development organization and how lean product development will help you get there?

We help you generate pull for lean product development from the executive level to the engineers and technicians.

Here is our approach:

Ensure that the objectives and measures for lean product development are clear, specific and actionable.
Establish a strong tie to the business needs of the organization.
Help the organization's formal and informal leaders understand what to do to truly support lean product development - and what not to do.

Katherine has helped us develop key examples of lean success which demonstrate our commitment and has supported us to the point where we are able to sustain the momentum ourselves going forward.

Patricia Ranch, Product Quality Manager, The Toro Company

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Resources for Lean Product Development Champions

Lean Product Development Resource Center
Free articles, templates and examples to support your work as a lean product development champion.
How to Build Support for Lean Product Development
Next web class starts November, 2010.

In this web class, participants work together to create more pull for their lean product development initiatives. The topics covered include:
- Why lean product development initiatives fail.
- How to establish effective objectives and metrics.
- How to build sponsorship and support.
- How to overcome common sources of resistance.
- How to ensure that changes stick.
- How to recognize and celebrate success.
Just-In-Time Lean Product Development Call
This one hour session can help blast through roadblocks that are getting in the way of your lean product development implementation.
Lean Product Development Kick Start Visit
Understand your organization's current state of product development, and learn how your company can best move forward.
Lean Product Development Champion Mentoring Program

Get long-term support for your lean product development initiative at a reasonable cost, and connect with a broad community of lean product development champions.

Knowledge Brief of the Week

Each week, I publish a new Knowledge Brief to the Lean Product Development Resource Center. Here are the next three topics

February 10:
Lean Product Development for Advanced R & D:
Steps Towards the Fully-Realized Lean Product Development Organization

February 17:
Lean Leaders Have Their Own Problems to Solve:
Middle Managers in the Lean Product Development Organization

February 24:
Process Flow Variants:
Value Stream Maps Aren't The Only Game in Town

Ready for More?

Katherine Radeka helps you get your ideas to market faster. When you are ready to get serious about putting lean product development into practice to help you shorten time to market, increase R & D capacity or lower costs, she is ready to help.

She knows how to tailor lean product development to meet the needs of companies ranging from the Fortune 100 to family firms earning $10 - $50 million per year, in a wide variety of industries.

Her clients say that she is tough where it counts, but easy to work with and deeply knowledgeable.

Learn more about how she works at Whittier Consulting Group, Inc.