Development of The Lean PD Efficiency Tool

The University of Twente is working on a EU project focussed on improving the new product development (NPD) efficiency of R&D departments. In order to achieve this training and consultancy materials are developed. This project is performed with a consortium of companies. It is necessary to measure the implementation of several Lean techniques at these companies in order to understand the current state of the implementation and to reveal the areas suitable for improvement. Sequentially it is necessary to understand the NPD challenges of the companies to develop the training. Therefore, a measurement instrument is required. This project is about designing this measurement instrument: the Lean PD efficiency tool.