Creating a Lean R&D System: Lean Principles and Approaches for Pharmaceutical and Research-Based Organizations

by Terence Barnhart

Overview

This book lays out the logic of why Lean implementation isn‘t strictly for manufacturing and describes why it can be just as effective in R&D organizations. Terence Barnhart, former senior director of continuous improvement at Pfizer R&D, describes the theoretical and physical underpinnings of creating a Lean transformation in any R&D organization, as exemplified by the Lean transformation initiated within the R&D division of a global pharmaceutical company.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781439800782
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/20/2012
Pages:	267
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Dr. Terence Barnhart has worked as an academic and industrial research scientist, a strategy consultant, a plant engineer, and a project manager for some of the largest and best-known companies in the world, including Pfizer, McKinsey and Company, and General Electric. His professional passion is researching, developing, and implementing strategies to help people create environments in which they and others can flourish.

Dr. Barnhart holds a PhD in inorganic chemistry from the University of Wisconsin and a bachelor of science degree and post-doctoral fellowship in chemistry from the University of Michigan.

Table of Contents

Seeing and Removing Barriers in the R&D Environment. Lean in Research and Development. The Individual in the Lean R&D Community. Lean Exercises for the R&D Professional. The A3 in Developing R&D Thinking. The Lean R&D Manager. Removing Barriers within the R&D Community. Critical Question Mapping. Value Stream Mapping in the R&D Space. Implementation Strategy. The Formation of Lean R&D Communities: A Case Example. Reflections.