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Today, the capacity to innovate is one of the key success factors of a company. According to a benchmarking study carried out by American Productivity and Quality Control (APQC), companies that display strong growth rates generate one third of their turnover from products which are less than three years old. Moreover, over the last 50 years there has been a drastic reduction in product life cycles. Those who don't improve continuously and quickly enough are shaken off by global competition.
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Staudter, C., von Hugo, C., Bosselmann, P., Mollenhauer, JP., Meran, R., Roenpage, O. (2013). Introduction. In: Lunau, S. (eds) Design for Six Sigma + LeanToolset. Management for Professionals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41455-8_1
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