Antecedentes na implementação da filosofia lean no processo e desenvolvimento de produto (PDP)

Abstract

Organizations as a whole are involved in highly dynamic and competitive environments. The Lean philosophy and adapted to the Product Development Process (PDP) is to contribute to the competitive product development within companies since the PDP is one of the most important processes responsible for adding value to the business strategies. The research that is configured as a multi-case study proposes an evaluation of factors considered important for the implementation of Lean in PDP. To this end, we analyzed the implementation of Lean in PDP in five organizations, noting four macro structural elements: Leadership and Management, Organizational Culture, Tools and Environment. Such elements were broken down into categories and related variables. This thesis used as a research tool, semi-structured questionnaires and analyzed with the key informants anterior, posterior and current scenarios related to implementation of Lean philosophy in PDP. The results show that the constant presence of structural macro elements and Management Leadership and Organizational Culture, focused on Lean are fundamental pillars for strengthening the implementation of Lean in the PDP and the variables selected and trained staff, ability and skills were seen as important in all cases the three scenarios (anterior, posterior and current).