Why is this book important?
Why is Dr. Spear’s book so important? Because he is credited for being first to decode the Toyota Production System, as part of his doctoral thesis at the Harvard Business School. He describes the causal mechanisms that explain how Toyota has achieved and sustained their amazing performance spanning decades, and then generalized these principles to explain how other high-performing (or high-velocity, as he calls them) organizations have replicated their results in different industries and in value streams outside of manufacturing.
The organizations he has extensively researched include Aisin (which is in the Toyota supplier network), the amazing safety and profit record at Aloca, amazing lead time reductions in healthcare organizations, and many more.
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