This book presents a roadmap for finding innovative solutions to the complex problems found in business, education, government, non-profits, and communities. Whether you are starting out in a career, an experienced professional, or a highly-skilled specialist, the book will provide steps to transform yourself from a high-performing individual to an effective builder and leader of collaborative, high-performance teams. To drive home the relevancy and power of collaborative, high-performing teams, author Ed Minnock has created a fictional story based upon a real problem: the critical shortage...

Whether a group of engineers is developing new cars, software applications, aerospace equipment, kitchen appliances, controls, sensors, or any of hundreds of different items, the process they follow is pretty much the same, except in one company - Toyota, perhaps the most innovative and highly respected car company on the planet. This book is based on five years of hands on experience implementing Toyota's product development system, which according to research by the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) achieves industry-leading quality and innovation while being four times as...