Comments on: Interesting Quote from Steve Spear http://www.leanblog.org/2008/11/interesting-quote-from-steve-spear/ Mark Graban's leanblog.org - Lean Healthcare, Lean Thinking, Lean Manufacturing, Toyota Production System Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:59:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andrew http://www.leanblog.org/2008/11/interesting-quote-from-steve-spear/#comment-4217 Andrew Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:33:00 +0000 http://leanblog.bigbigdesign.net/2008/11/interesting-quote-from-steve-spear/#comment-4217 Mark:<br/><br/>Yes, I've read it. An amazing book in my opinion. It takes us beyond the level of tools and approaches to some "meta-tools": the capabilities that underly Toyota (and other great organizations) success. Steve Spear and Kent Bowen actually laid out this frame work in their seminal article "The DNA of the Toyota Production System" (HBR, Sep-Oct 1999) where, among other things they describe the four rules and four capabilities of the Toyota Production System. The new book presents a series of tests of the theory - example after example of success and failure examined through the lens of the four capabilities.<br/><br/>I don't need to belabor it... you all need to read it!<br/><br/>-ALB Mark:

Yes, I’ve read it. An amazing book in my opinion. It takes us beyond the level of tools and approaches to some “meta-tools”: the capabilities that underly Toyota (and other great organizations) success. Steve Spear and Kent Bowen actually laid out this frame work in their seminal article “The DNA of the Toyota Production System” (HBR, Sep-Oct 1999) where, among other things they describe the four rules and four capabilities of the Toyota Production System. The new book presents a series of tests of the theory – example after example of success and failure examined through the lens of the four capabilities.

I don’t need to belabor it… you all need to read it!

-ALB

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