Visible Knowledge for Flawless Design by Allen C. Ward -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Foreword: How This Book Came to Be Preface: What You’ll Learn Acknowledgments About the Authors 1 How and Why to Use Visible Knowledge

What Is Visible Knowledge? The Basic Concept How Visible Knowledge Changes the Development Process The Wright Brothers, “Understand Then Design,” and the P-51 The Efficiency of Visible Knowledge

The Problem

Overcoming the Objections Reference

2 How to Create Visible Knowledge

Choosing the Issues to Investigate How We’ll Approach the Problem

Step 1: State the Issue Step 2: Draw a Picture Step 3: Create a Causal Diagram

Substep A Substep B Substep C Substep D Substep E

Step 4: Finding Data and Creating Curves

Substep A Substep B Substep C Substep D

Step 5: Countermeasures

3 Visible Knowledge and Companies

Organizing Your Knowledge Changing Management Roles and Skills Making Sure Your People Create Visible Knowledge Conducting Effective Design Reviews Changing Your Development Process Changing the Research Organization Changing Supplier Relationships Changing the Test Organization Conclusion: Better, Faster, Cheaper

4 Applying Visible Knowledge

Establish a Visible Knowledge Mindset

Summary

Alternative Ways of Building Visible Knowledge

Leveraging Existing Data Tapping the Experience of Seasoned Employees Using Designed Experiments

Use Visible Knowledge to Enhance Cross-Functional Collaboration Presentation Is Important Leading the Change The Journey Is Just Begun

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