9780814413784-0814413781-The Lean Machine: How Harley-Davidson Drove Top-Line Growth and Profitability With Revolutionary Lean Product Development

The Lean Machine: How Harley-Davidson Drove Top-Line Growth and Profitability With Revolutionary Lean Product Development

ISBN-13: 9780814413784
ISBN-10: 0814413781
Author: Dantar P. Oosterwal
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Amacom Books
Format: Hardcover 254 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780814413784
ISBN-10: 0814413781
Author: Dantar P. Oosterwal
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Amacom Books
Format: Hardcover 254 pages

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The Lean Machine: How Harley-Davidson Drove Top-Line Growth and Profitability With Revolutionary Lean Product Development (ISBN-13: 9780814413784 and ISBN-10: 0814413781), written by authors Dantar P. Oosterwal, was published by Amacom Books in 2010. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other Management (Management & Leadership, Production & Operations) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Lean Machine: How Harley-Davidson Drove Top-Line Growth and Profitability With Revolutionary Lean Product Development (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Management books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.33.

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Some things never change. Harley-Davidson is still the great, iconic American motorcycle. But like many storied companies, Harley has had to evolve to stay on top, even to stay in existence. From near-extinction in the early eighties, it has risen to worldwide recognition for management excellence and innovation. The Lean Machine is an inside look at how Harley-Davidson was able to adapt in an ever-changing world and accelerate product development. Rooted in Japanese productivity improvement techniques, Knowledge-Based Product Development helped fuel Harley’s incredible period of sustained growth.

Even after the company earned the PDMA Corporate Innovator Award in 2003, Dantar Oosterwal, a Harley-Davidson executive, took the improvement a quantum leap further. By implementing Lean Product Development techniques, Harley realized an unprecedented fourfold increase in throughput in half the time, powering annual growth of more than ten percent.

In The Lean Machine, Oosterwal shows the day-to-day transformation at Harley and identifies universal change and improvement issues, so that companies in any industry can incorporate Knowledge-Based Innovation—with predictably excellent results.

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