20 Years Later: How Toyota's Product Development Principles Are Still Core to a Lean Enterprise

In this episode of the WLEI Podcast, Lex Schroeder and Josh Howell speak with Jim Morgan about the origin of his book co-authored with Jeff Liker, The Toyota Product Development System: Integrating People, Process, and Technology, which was the first book ever to detail Toyota’s product development system.

The conversation explores:

• How The Toyota Product Development System book came about and what prompted Jim to take on this research
• Timeless lessons from this body of work that engineering leaders can use today to develop teams that know how to consistently create products customers want
• How Jim applied these lean product and process development lessons over the course of his career, always working within unique situational contexts
• Where companies tend to struggle most with applying core LPPD concepts and practices and where they should get started What keeps engineering and business leaders from moving to action and taking the necessary, hard steps to build the capability of their team members and truly transform their enterprises

Learn more about lean product and process development at lean.org/LPPD