Success Story: How Lean Product Development Prepared PING to Optimize the Knowledge Creation Value Stream

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The key foundation to any world class product development process is the efficient re-use of engineering knowledge. This presentation will focus on the concepts involved with establishing a true knowledge environment and PING's progress concerning this paradigm change.

PING's lean product development journey started in 2001 and has been instrumental in cutting the company's time to market by more than half, and quintupling new product introductions, all with the same staff level. Along this journey, PING has been leaning out their PD value stream, but has discovered the power of leaning out their knowledge value stream.