In today's business environment, a company's ability to provide products to the marketplace quickly and cheaply is the key to survival. The lifeblood of many companies rests in the product development processes that enable them to provide a continual stream of new products that are better, cheaper, and reach the customer faster than the competition.

In Accelerated Product Development: Combining Lean and Six Sigma for Peak Performance, Clifford Fiore provides the blueprint for implementing the key elements for improving the product development process. His innovative and powerful work represents the first book to couple the proven concepts of Lean and Six Sigma with the engineering processes of product development.
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