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Steven Spear – The High Velocity Edge: How to Beat the Competition

September 11, 2024 by admin

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Steve Spear DBA MS MS is principal of SeeToSolve LLC, whose SaaS products support the tapping into of an enterprise’s distributed and collective intelligence, and he is author of The High Velocity Edge.  

As a senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Spear teaches in graduate and executive education programs and has advised several dozen graduate theses. He is also senior fellow at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement and Associated Faculty at Adriane Labs of the Harvard School of Public Health. 

His publications have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Annals of Internal Medicine, Academic Medicine, Health Services Research, the Journal of Nursing Administration, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and USA Today.

Spear’s research has had broad application and impact, serving as the basis for the Alcoa Business System, the DTE Operating System, the Pittsburgh Region’s Perfecting Patient Care System, the Pittsburgh Women’s Center and Shelter hotline, and significant programs at companies like Intel, Pratt and Whitney, Intuit, Novelis, and GSK.  

He’s been an advisor to a Secretary of the Treasury, an Undersecretary for Health Affairs at the Veterans Administration, the Chief of Naval Operations, the Chief of Naval Research, the Director of the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force, and several corporate leaders. 

Spear has a Doctorate from Harvard University, where disruptive innovation thought leader, Clayton Christensen was one of his dissertation advisors. He has a  Master’s in engineering and in management from MIT, and a Bachelor’s from Princeton University where he studied economics under Nobel Laureate David Card. He’s a board member for the Maimonides School, YI Brookline, the NE ADL, and the Greater Boston Manufacturing Partnership.

Wiring the Winning Organization is available for purchase on Amazon as is Steve’s previous book, The High Velocity Edge.

https://www.amazon.com/Wiring-Winning-Organization-Slowification-Simplification/dp/1950508420

https://www.amazon.com/High-Velocity-Edge-Operational-Excellence-Competition/dp/0071741410

Steven Spear DBA MS MS
Principal, See to Solve LLC
Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management
Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Author, The High Velocity Edge
Click here for sample chapters from
The High Velocity Edge
• leadership and crisis recovery (chapters 9 and 10)
• accelerating development of break through technologies (chapter 5)

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