Creating a Lean R&D System: Principles and Approaches for Pharmaceutical Research Based Organizations

Demonstrates that lean implementation isn't strictly for manufacturing, that it can just as effectively be implemented in an R&D organization, providing that the differences that each culture requires is understood. This book explains why the lean approach is appropriate for R&D. This book lays out the logic of why Lean implementation isn‘t strictly for manufacturing and describes why it can be just as effective in R&D organizations. Terence Barnhart, former senior director of continuous improvement at Pfizer R&D, describes the theoretical and physical underpinnings of creating a Lean transformation in any R&D organization, as exemplified by the Lean transformation initiated within the R&D division of a global pharmaceutical company.