Thinking Beyond Lean: Multi-project Management

co-author of The Machine that Changed the World

Based on over a decade of research, Thinking Beyond Lean is a pragmatic, insightful examination of how companies should approach their overall product development strategy.

NASA Senior Manager for Project Management Development

Thinking Beyond Lean is truly a rarity -- a book which deals with the actual challenges of project management, and which will make practicing project managers and senior leaders think in new ways. Through a focus on multi-project management, Cusumano and Nobeoka provide insight into project portfolio planning, product innovation, technology transfer, and rapid development. The book provides a broad opportunity to learn how performance and growth can be dramatically improved.

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of The MIT Center for Innovation in Product Development

In this worthy successor to The Machine That Changed the World, Cusumano and Nobeoka persuasively document how leading companies have achieved significant advantages by shifting emphasis from development of individual products to delivery of coordinated product streams. Readers will especially welcome the authors' efforts to evaluate practices for deploying core functional components, technical knowledge, and multi-project management capabilities across sets of development projects. Thinking Beyond Lean should be read by production, marketing, and financial managers -- in fact, anyone concerned with product development.