STEVE SPEAR

Designing High-Velocity Organizations

Everyone chases problems.
The best use them to get better faster than anyone else can match.

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Why Organizations Struggle with Execution

Many organizations rely on heroic effort to keep complex work moving.

But firefighting is not a leadership problem.

It’s a design problem.

Steve Spear’s research shows how high-performing organizations design systems that:

• surface problems early
• coordinate work across teams
• innovate without disrupting delivery
• move faster than competitors

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The High Velocity Edge

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 learning, 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 Alcoa, amazing lead time reductions in healthcare organizations, and many more.

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Wiring the Winning Organization

Decode the Wiring Secrets behind High-Performing Teams

DevOps, Lean, and Agile got us part of the way. Now, Wiring the Winning Organization gets us over the finish line. Drawing on decades of meticulous research of high-performing organizations and cross-population surveys of tens of thousands of employees, award-winning authors Gene Kim and Dr. Steven J. Spear introduce a groundbreaking new theory of organizational management. Organizations win by using three mechanisms to slowify, simplify, and amplify, which systematically moves problem-solving from high-risk danger zones to low-risk winning zones.

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Leading Organizations for High-Velocity Performance

MIT Sloan Executive Education course exploring how organizations can design systems that solve problems early and execute reliably across complex work. Designed exactly for working professionals who want to bring ideas into action quickly and well.

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