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The Design Brief | Eric Ethington and Matt Zayko on Why it Takes a Chief Engineer to Design Profitable Value Streams

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In this episode of the WLEI Podcast, we speak with Eric Ethington and Matt Zayko about how to build strong teams and robust product and process development systems, and why doing so takes a skilled chief engineer. Eric Ethington is a senior coach and Chief Engineer, Lean Product and Process Development (LPPD) at The Lean Enterprise Institute. Matt Zayko is global head of the Lean Office at GE HealthCare. Eric and Matt are also coauthors of the book, The Power of Process: A Story of Innovative Lean Process Development.

The conversation explores:

  • The key skills every chief engineer needs to be effective and “lead with responsibility, not authority”
  • How chief engineers can begin the work of “designing the value stream”
  • Why conflict is necessary to create good products and how to manage conflict with care
  • System integration and how chief engineers optimize work at the product level, balancing the inputs and needs of product development and manufacturing, for example
  • Real stories of product and process development where Eric and Matt have seen teams persevere and use LPPD thinking to innovate and achieve success

Read Eric and Matt’s article “9 Tips to Better Process Development” here.

Get Started with Lean Product & Process Development

Improving how you develop and deliver products doesn’t require a full transformation to start—it begins with learning to see problems clearly, involve your team, and improve how work gets done.

Explore your next step:

Let’s take the first step—together. Learn more at lean.org/LPPD »

  continue reading

100 episodes

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In this episode of the WLEI Podcast, we speak with Eric Ethington and Matt Zayko about how to build strong teams and robust product and process development systems, and why doing so takes a skilled chief engineer. Eric Ethington is a senior coach and Chief Engineer, Lean Product and Process Development (LPPD) at The Lean Enterprise Institute. Matt Zayko is global head of the Lean Office at GE HealthCare. Eric and Matt are also coauthors of the book, The Power of Process: A Story of Innovative Lean Process Development.

The conversation explores:

  • The key skills every chief engineer needs to be effective and “lead with responsibility, not authority”
  • How chief engineers can begin the work of “designing the value stream”
  • Why conflict is necessary to create good products and how to manage conflict with care
  • System integration and how chief engineers optimize work at the product level, balancing the inputs and needs of product development and manufacturing, for example
  • Real stories of product and process development where Eric and Matt have seen teams persevere and use LPPD thinking to innovate and achieve success

Read Eric and Matt’s article “9 Tips to Better Process Development” here.

Get Started with Lean Product & Process Development

Improving how you develop and deliver products doesn’t require a full transformation to start—it begins with learning to see problems clearly, involve your team, and improve how work gets done.

Explore your next step:

Let’s take the first step—together. Learn more at lean.org/LPPD »

  continue reading

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