Steve’s work has influenced leaders across manufacturing, health care, government and beyond. His keynote will challenge how organizations think about problem-solving, leadership and creating the conditions for people to do their best work.
MEET STEVE SPEAR
Steve Spear is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, principal of HVE LLC, and a senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. He is the author of the influential works “Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System,” “The High Velocity Edge,” and, most recently, “Wiring the Winning Organization.” A recognized thought leader in continuous improvement and enterprise excellence, Spear has advised leaders across industry and government, including a U.S. treasury secretary, a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs undersecretary for health, a chief of naval operations, a chief of naval research, two U.S. Pacific Fleet commanders, the director of the U.S. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force and numerous corporate executives.
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Wiring the winning organization: How the world’s best architect process and products liberate our greatness
There are those outliers that constantly generate and deliver way more value than their counterparts — scoring big for all stakeholders. Meanwhile, everyone else grinds it out just to keep up. The difference? The winners change the game. While others chase clever transactions to gain fleeting edge or optimize moving insentient materials through insentient machines, winners focus on how fast their people can solve complex problems — about markets, operations and everything linking them — and put great solutions into practice quickly and well.
They’re winning by rewiring their “social circuitry,” the processes and routines that harmonize individual effort into collective action toward common goals. The point? Make it easier to focus ingenuity on problems for which solutions have value, rather than blowing energy just figuring out what to do and how to get it done. The results are awesome.
Dr. Spear — MIT senior lecturer, author of landmark studies about Toyota’s DNA and founder of the process software firm See to Solve — explains how the best win by making problems easier to see and solve. Drawing on his experience with pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, U.S. Army and Navy commands, technology leaders, and social service organizations such as the Pittsburgh Women’s Center and Shelter, he connects foundational lessons from Toyota to emerging challenges across today’s frontier sectors. Attendees will leave with insight about how they can rewire their organizations to liberate ingenuity and win big, too.
Resources:
- View Steve Spear’s MIT Executive Education course Leading Organizations for High Velocity performance
- Read excerpts from The High-Velocity Edge: Chapters 1, 4, & 5 and Chapter 11 Healthcare
- Read excerpt from Wiring the Winning Organization.
Order Steve’s book, The High-Velocity Edge here
Order Steve’s book, Wiring the Winning Organization here
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