Our Mission

Our mission is to provide systems and methods to enable Learning-First Product Development in manufacturing companies.

Learning-First Product Development results in:

• 4x productivity gains
• Twice the innovation in half the time
• Major project milestone dates that are consistently met
• Risk management via options rather than via restricting flexibility
• Knowledge reused / shared efficiently between projects
• Rich collaboration with manufacturing design (true concurrent engineering)
• Rich collaboration with your suppliers
• Elimination of systemic loop-backs and late-cycle test failures
• Elimination of administrative and compliance reviews and other overhead
• Elimination of end-of-project fire-fighting
• Consistent delivery of superior quality, innovative products

Is there evidence for these kinds of gains?
Yes; the most stellar evidence is Toyota, which serves as our model for how effective Learning-First Product Development can be.

What's the first step?
The first step is to learn Set-Based Thinking™; and the first step in learning that is Set-Based Thinking ™ Workshops, which identify your key customer requirements, the knowledge that will be needed to design to those requirements, the sources of that knowledge, and a Language of Knowledge (LOK) for your company.