Rebentisch, Eric
LAI Research Associate
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Dr. Eric Rebentisch heads up LAI’s enterprise product development group and leads its research, tools, and community development activities. He also serves as project lead for LAI's work with the Army Materiel Enterprise. His research addresses challenging issues relating to the management of technical systems and processes in both government and industry. His industry work has focused primarily in aerospace but also encompasses autos, medical devices, chemicals, and high technology.
Dr. Rebentisch's research has focused on the development and management of enterprise technical competencies, including knowledge management and knowledge transfer, intellectual capital management, long-term institutional change, the “fuzzy front end” of product development, system architecting (including standardization, reusability, and commonality), and strategies for managing technical system development in an unstable environment. He has advised dozens of graduate student theses at MIT on a range of topics.
He has played a principal role in developing LAI research findings into policy recommendations and deploying them to the U.S. government and in facilitating high-level value-stream mapping and transformation events in complex enterprises. Dr. Rebentisch led the enterprise and stakeholder value effort on the NASA Constellation Systems Study on the Draper Laboratory/MIT team studying future space exploration architectures and strategies.
He is a co-author of the book Lean Enterprise Value and numerous other publications. At MIT he has taught courses in research methods and Lean/Six-sigma processes. He has been a principal in developing and deploying short courses at LAI and MIT, including the Lean Enterprise Value (LEV) and Lean Enterprise Product Development (LEPD). Both LEV and LEPD were co-developed with Dr. Hugh McManus and have been used widely in the aerospace industry to train managers and engineers lean enterprise principles and practices and to facilitate improvement initiatives.
He received a doctorate in the management of technological innovation from MIT's Sloan School of Management, a master’s degree in organizational behavior from Brigham Young University, and a bachelor of science degree in aerospace engineering from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Prior to academia, he worked in the aircraft industry as a propulsion engineer.
