Approaches To Crisis Prevention In Lean Product Development By High Performance Teams And Through Risk Management

This thesis investigates crisis prevention in lean product development, focusing on high performance teams and risk management methods. Lean product development and the Munich Procedural Model (MPM) are the guiding frameworks for this thesis. From the MPM, team work and risk management are derived...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oehmen, Josef
Other Authors: Prof. Warren Seering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Birgit Dick, Technical University of Munich
Format: Thesis
Published: 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81762
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Summary:This thesis investigates crisis prevention in lean product development, focusing on high performance teams and risk management methods. Lean product development and the Munich Procedural Model (MPM) are the guiding frameworks for this thesis. From the MPM, team work and risk management are derived as important elements in crisis prevention, from lean product development, especially the notion of value is used to define basic types of crisis in product development and the failure modes of risks in product development.