Revised and Expanded Second Edition
The Rapid Learning Cycles Handbook you need
- Why most product development and innovation programs are late, cost too much, and/or deliver disappointing results.
- Why a focus on Key Decisions eliminate these problems at their source.
- How to recognize Key Decisions and Knowledge Gaps within your programs so that the most important decisions rise to the surface.
- Why Rapid Learning Cycles burns down project risk so that executives can make commitments with greater certainty.
- Why most companies do things in new product development that actually slow their programs down, and how to stop doing them.
What You'll Find Inside:
The Rapid Learning Cycles Framework
We’ll describe the breakthrough system that our product developers use to get their best ideas to market faster.
Inside the Learning Cycle
We’ll explain what teams do differently to build and capture the knowledge that accelerates development.
Integration, Metrics and Troubleshooting
We’ll give you guidance on how to measure progress, address challenges and integrate the RLC framework into your PDP.
Your Comprehensive Guide to the Framework
I wrote this book to give to every client, to serve as their guide when I can't be there to answer questions.
Rapid Learning Cycles Explorers
- The case for Rapid Learning Cycles.
- Why and how it differs from other frameworks, particularly other agile methods.
- How to know if it can help you.
Innovation and R&D Leaders
- The root causes of slow innovation and late product development programs.
- The mechanisms that drive higher ROI from teams using RLC.
- Why you probably don't need to redesign your entire PDP.
RLC Pilot Project Leaders
- Guidelines and tips for each step in the process.
- How to explain Rapid Learning Cycles to your leaders and your team.
- How to use RLCs within phase-gate PDPs and other internal processes.
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Or download a sample of the Introduction and First Chapter, which explain the rationale for the Rapid Learning Cycles framework.
Author Spotlight
Katherine Radeka is an internationally recognized expert on innovation and product development who has helped hundreds of engineers and scientists to get their best ideas to market faster.
Author of the Shingo Research Award-winning book, The Mastery of Innovation, High Velocity Innovation, and When Agile Gets Physical.
She has accelerated innovation on every continent except Antarctica and in industries from aerospace to alternative energy. Katherine lives in the Netherlands.
"When you can get your best ideas to market faster, you and your team wins, your company wins, and your customers win." — Katherine Radeka
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