Download or read book Creating a Lean R&D System written by Terence Barnhart and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability to find and remove barriers between people and their systems in R&D can almost guarantee a doubling in performance, and often delivers multiples of that. R&D teams that have smooth handoffs deliver 100 percent of the required knowledge at those handoffs. As a result, such teams do not lose critical information, have unexpected k