Award Recipients – The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence – shingoprize.org
The full list of winners has been released. Congratulations to all! It's personally quite an honor to be included in this list.
- Steven J. Spear: Chasing the Rabbit: How Market Leaders Outdistance the Competition and How Great Companies Can Catch Up and Win
- John Shook: Managing to Learn: Using the A3 Management Process to Solve Problems, Gain Agreement, Mentor, and Lead
- Professor Peter Hines; Dr. Pauline Found; Gary Griffiths; and Richard Harrison – Staying Lean: Thriving, Not Just Surviving
- Jeff Liker and Michael Hoseus: Toyota Culture: The Heart and Soul of the Toyota Way
- Durwood Sobek and Art Smalley: Understanding A3 Thinking: A Critical Component of Toyota's PDCA Management System
- Mark Graban: Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction
Hope to see some of you where at the Shingo Prize conference and banquet.





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I’ll be at the conference for sure this year. It should be great.