{"id":19242,"date":"2022-03-22T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lean.org\/?p=19242"},"modified":"2022-04-29T15:52:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T19:52:46","slug":"understanding-before-executing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lean.org\/the-lean-post\/articles\/understanding-before-executing\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Before Executing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Taking the time to truly understand your customer and their context, understanding exactly how your new product will create value for them, is absolutely critical to your new product&#8217;s success,&#8221; declares Jim Morgan, LEI senior advisor for lean product and process development (LPPD). Also, crucial to understand before you start executing on your new product or services development project: the knowledge gaps that stand between your team&#8217;s current know-how and what they need to learn at each point in the value chain to create that new value \u2014 including engineering, manufacturing, logistics, installation, and field service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These findings highlight the importance of one of several LPPD guiding principles,&nbsp;<em>Understanding Before Executing,<\/em>&nbsp;identified by LEI&#8217;s LPPD team. Led by Morgan, the coauthor of <em>The Toyota Product Development System<\/em> (2006) and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lean.org\/store\/book\/designing-the-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Designing the Future <\/a><\/em>(2019), the team has distilled what it&#8217;s learned from real-world experience and research into the principles and practices of successful development teams. By sharing the guiding principles, LEI\u2019s LPPD team aims to help other organizations worldwide improve their development processes and build a global community that will share their experiences to advance the art and science of creating new value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lean.org\/the-lean-post\/articles\/lean-product-process-development-guiding-principles-at-a-glance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here for an infographic and a quick-read summary of the guiding principles.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See the <em>Lean Post <\/em>and related ebook detailing another guiding principle,<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lean.org\/the-lean-post\/articles\/developing-products-is-a-team-sport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Developing Products is a Team Sport.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Exploring the Principle <em>Understanding Before Executing<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The LPPD team found that adhering to the principle&nbsp;<em>Understanding Before Executing \u2014&nbsp;<\/em>and using the tools and methods associated with it \u2014 yields new high-performance value streams. The principle and practices help organizations more consistently design and produce new products and services customers love while also optimizing the value stream that delivers them. Examples include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Assigning a Chief Engineer and a small team of designers and engineers to oversee the entire program.<\/li><li>Using set-based concurrent engineering to close knowledge gaps.<\/li><li>Adopting the use of the Concept Paper.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The following three&nbsp;<em>Lean Posts<\/em>, links below, offer more in-depth information about how \u2014 and why \u2014 this principle should be a vital part of your development process. In addition, the downloadable ebook (PDF), which features the three Posts and other information, is another way to access these crucial insights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lean.org\/the-lean-post\/articles\/understand-before-you-execute\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Understand Before You Execute: <\/a>Leading practitioners share the benefits of understanding this principle of lean product and process development.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/www.lean.org\/the-lean-post\/articles\/understand-before-you-execute\/&amp;display=popup&amp;ref=plugin&amp;src=share_button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https:\/\/www.lean.org\/the-lean-post\/articles\/understand-before-you-execute\/&amp;text=Understand%20Before%20You%20Execute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/www.lean.org\/the-lean-post\/articles\/understand-before-you-execute\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"#shared-counts-email\"><\/a><a href=\"#comments\"><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lean.org\/the-lean-post\/articles\/front-load-your-design-process-by-using-set-based-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Front-Load Your Design Process by Using Set-Based Design: <\/a>Professor Jeffrey Liker, the author of <em>The Toyota Way<\/em>, highlights the benefits of set-based design in this in-depth reflection of his time working in product development at Toyota.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lean.org\/the-lean-post\/articles\/coachs-corner-understanding-the-value-of-a-concept-paper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Coach\u2019s Corner: Understanding the Value of a Concept Paper<\/a>: The Concept Paper&#8217;s integral role at Toyota defines program goals, encouraging questions and deeper understandings throughout the development process.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/info.lean.org\/understanding-before-executing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lean.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DB-understand-before-you-execute-pdf-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lean.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DB-understand-before-you-execute-pdf-copy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lean.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DB-understand-before-you-execute-pdf-copy-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lean.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DB-understand-before-you-execute-pdf-copy-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lean.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DB-understand-before-you-execute-pdf-copy-375x188.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.lean.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DB-understand-before-you-execute-pdf-copy-190x95.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEI&#8217;s lean product and process development coaches share the second of several guiding principles that will help you improve the success of your organization&#8217;s new products, processes, and services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46027,"featured_media":19282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"12311,6847,4558,8908,5314,4579","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - 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