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About the Lean Enterprise Institute / Lean Enterprise Institute Senior Advisors and Staff / Jim Morgan

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Jim Morgan

Senior Advisor, Lean Enterprise Institute

Jim Morgan, Ph.D. is President of EMC Network, a research and consulting firm specializing in new product and process creation. He is also Senior Advisor to the Lean Enterprise Institute for their lean product and process development initiative.  In these roles Jim has helped senior leaders from a wide variety of industries to improve their organizations development performance.  Dr. Morgan’s expertise comes from a rare combination of deep industry experience and rigorous scholarship.

His most recent industry experience was serving as Chief Operating Officer at Rivian, an electric vehicle manufacturer that he helped lead through a critical transition period.  Prior to Rivian, Jim spent ten years at Ford Motor Company, first leading the development of Ford’s Global Product Development System (GPDS) then serving for eight and a half years as their Global Director of Body and SBU Engineering during Ford’s historic, product led revitalization under then CEO, Alan Mulally.  Prior to Ford, Jim worked at Troy Design and Manufacturing (TDM) for 15 years as Vice President of Operations. TDM is a tier one, global automotive supplier of engineering services, prototypes tools and low volume parts and subassemblies.

Jim holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Michigan where his original research into Product Development won two Shingo Prizes for Research Excellence.  In addition he co-authored (with Professor Jeffrey Liker) the award-winning book The Toyota Product Development System (2006) and Designing the Future (2018).  He has also authored or co-authored several book chapters on product development, as well as related articles for the Sloan Management Review, The Engineering Management Journal and other publications.

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Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe with Jim Morgan, Josh Howell and Matt Savas from the Lean Enterprise Institute

Product & Process Development

Designing the Future: A WLEI Podcast with Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe and former COO Jim Morgan

Podcast by Josh Howell, Jim Morgan, Matthew Savas and RJ Scaringe

Product & Process Development

Why the Most Important Product Leaders Can Develop is Their Team

Video by Jim Morgan

Product & Process Development

How Designing Value Streams, Not Just Products, Creates Competitive Advantage

Video by Jim Morgan

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Designing The Future

Designing the Future

by Jeffrey Liker and Jim Morgan

$24.00
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