Success Is Assured: Decision-Focused Mapping of Reusable Knowledge and Innovation to Achieve First-Time Quality

Content: Cover
 Endorsements
 Title Page
 Copyright Page
 Contents
 Foreword
 Acknowledgments
 Introduction
 Part I: How to Establish "Success is Assured" prior to Making Decisions in Your Organization
 1: Pratt & Whitney Case Study: Their Journey to "Success is Assured"
 The Setting: Pratt & Whitney
 Establishing "Success is Assured": The Promise and Challenge
 P & W's History of Successfully Implementing Continuous Improvement Initiatives
 Initiative 1: Integrated Program Deployment
 Initiative 2: Lean Manufacturing. Initiative 3: Phase Gate Product Development Process and the Implementation of a Systems Engineering OrganizationP & W'S Grassroots Journey to Establishing "Success is Assured"
 Why Did We Need to Change?
 What Were Our Current Product Development Capabilities?
 How Does Organizational Complexity Affect Complex Processes?
 The Foundation for Establishing "Success is Assured"
 Getting Executives to Understand Cadence, Pull, and Flow
 Understanding the Last Pillar: Set-Based Concurrent Engineering
 Refining Our Phase Gate System with This New Thinking. Implementing a System for Establishing "Success is Assured"Action 1: Develop a P & W Value Stream Vision for Establishing "Success is Assured"
 Action 2: The PW1500G Engine After-Action Review
 Follow-On Action: Testing Causal Mapping as an Enabler for Better Decision-Making
 We Continue to Test Causal Mapping
 Finally, the Chance to Integrate Causal Mapping into an Existing Program
 Getting Set-Based Concurrent Engineering on the Table
 Discussions Around Visual Models Help Pull in the Required Expertise
 Where to Next: The Journey Must Continue
 Equally Informed People Seldom Disagree. 2: "True North"Requirements Management Guided by "True North"
 Systems Engineering Guided by "True North"
 Phase Gate Processes Guided by "True North"
 Knowledge Management Guided by "True North"
 Problem-Solving Initiatives Guided by "True North"
 Risk Management Guided by "True North"
 Lean Guided by "True North"
 The Toyota Product Development System is Guided by "True North"
 Product Development Guided by "True North"
 3: The Enablers
 Challenges in Achieving "True North"
 How Big Are These Challenges?
 Accelerating Learning Is Not Easy!
 Set-Based Can Be the Accelerator. Decision-Focused LearningKey Enablers for Achieving "True North"
 LAMDA for Collaborative Learning
 K-Briefs for Organizing the Visual Models
 Decision-Based Scheduling
 Integrating Events
 Mentoring
 Cadence
 Trade-Off Charts for Set-Based Decision-Making
 Knowledge Reuse and Continuous Improvement
 Learning the Reusable Set-Based Knowledge
 Enabler of the Enablers: Causal Mapping
 4: Causal Mapping
 Inspiration for Causal and Decision Maps
 Trade-Off Charts Inspired the Decision Map
 The Decision Map Inspired the Causal Map
 Causal Mapping for Problem-Solving
 Problem Description.