Books –
The Lean Product Development Guidebook: Everything Your Design Team Needs to Improve Efficiency and Slash Time-to-Market, Technology Perspectives, 2007
The Lean Design Guidebook: Everything Your Product Development Team Needs to Slash Manufacturing Cost, Technology Perspectives, 2004
Building a Project-Driven Enterprise: How to Slash Waste and Boost Profits Through Lean Project Management, Technology Perspectives, 2002
The Growth Warriors: Creating Sustainable Global
Advantage for America’s Technology Industries,
Technology Perspectives,
1999.
Journal / Magazine Articles –
"Accelerate your project using stand-up coordination meetings," Medical Design, October 2006.
“Lean design as a competitive mandate,” Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Systems, December 2005.
“A simple cost evaluator for lean product design,” Machine Design, November 2004.
“Driving lean upstream can multiply its benefits,” Advanced Manufacturing, May 2002.
“Innovation and Environmental Sustainability,” Technology, Humans, and Society, edited by Richard C. Dorf, Academic Press, 2001.
“Lean thinking: It’s about efficient value creation,” Target Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2000.
“Harnessing tacit knowledge to achieve breakthrough
innovation,” Journal of Product Innovation Management,
Vol. 17, No. 3, May
2000.
“Models for Sustainable Advantage,” The
Technology Management Handbook, CRC / IEEE Press,
CD-ROM edition,
1999.
“A framework for sustainable advantage
in global high-tech markets,” International Journal of Technology
Management, Vol. 17, No. 3, 1999.
Ron Mascitelli, PMP
President
Technology Perspectives
Ron
Mascitelli, PMP (Project Management Professional, Masters Degree Solid State
Physics, University of California, Los Angeles) is the Founder and President
of Technology Perspectives. Ron is a recognized leader in the development
of advanced product design and development methods. He presents his workshops
and seminars internationally, and has created and deployed company-specific
lean product development training and improvement programs for a number of
leading firms, including Intel Corp., Adidas Group, Parker Hannifin, Boston
Scientific Corp., New Balance Athletic Shoes, Halliburton, Harris Corporation,
Goodrich Aerospace, Hughes Electronics, Rockwell Automation / Allen-Bradley,
and Applied Materials.
Ron served as both Senior
Scientist and Director of Research and Development for Hughes Electronics
and the Santa Barbara Research Center. His industry experience includes management
of advanced product development projects for the Department of Defense, the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Lawrence Livermore Laboratory,
NASA, and the Department of Energy. In addition to his product development
experience, Ron served as both program manager and technical director for
several manufacturing technology (Mantech), producibility, and flexible manufacturing
initiatives.
Since founding Technology
Perspectives in 1994, Ron Mascitelli has worked with over sixty companies
to improve their product development performance and product-line profitability.
In addition, he has published more than twenty papers and technical articles
in major journals and trade publications, including the International
Journal of Technology Management and The Journal
of Product Innovation Management, and is a contributing author
for IEEE’s Technology Management Handbook.
He is the author of the critically acclaimed book, Building
a Project-Driven Enterprise: How to Slash Waste and Boost Profits Through
Lean Project Management, the first installment of The
Lean Guidebook Series, entitled, The
Lean Design Guidebook: Everything Your Product Development Team Needs to Slash
Manufacturing Cost, and his most recent publication, The
Lean Product Development Guidebook: Everything Your Design Team Needs to Improve
Efficiency and Slash Time-to-Market.
Ron's hobbies include martial arts, woodworking, gardening, and enjoying the
beauty of the natural world. He currently lives with his wife and their numerous
pets in Northridge, CA.
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