Author: Daniel snow

What a Unicorn Knows: How Leading Entrepreneurs Use Lean Principles to Drive Sustainable Growth by Matthew May and Pablo Dominguez, Matt Holt Books, 2023 In the late 1980s, James Womack and a team of MIT researchers identified the enduring value of the Toyota Production System and named it “lean.” Since then, many leading companies, including Fortive and Danaher, have adopted key elements of this systemic, process-focused approach to boosting quality and eliminating waste. Lean’s clinical assessment of processes, as opposed to simply final outputs, has, among other things, helped bring about a dramatic drop in reported defects in manufacturing and…

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