Lean Product Development reduces the time-to-market for trouble-free products.

Collaborate With Customers Design for Mass Customization Design for Manufacture Design for Quality & Reliability Implement Fast Time-to-Market Techniques Collaborate with Suppliers in Development

The average time to develop a new product is down to 24 weeks, from the 240 weeks it used to take. Special orders are on a fast track, too. Customers can deliver details of products they need directly to Nortel engineers through a company extranet, cutting production time from three months to a day. "We've shifted from telco time to Web speed," Roth says. - Business Week E.BIZ/September 18, 2000