Commentaries on “The Lenses of Lean”

Michael A. Cusumano; Matthias Holweg; Josh Howell; Torbjørn Netland; Rachna Shah; John Shook; Peter Ward; James Womack

doi:10.1002/joom.1138

Commentaries on “The Lenses of Lean”

Michael A. Cusumano, Matthias Holweg, Josh Howell, Torbjørn Netland, Rachna Shah, John Shook, Peter Ward, James Womack

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The phenomenon of the Toyota Production System (TPS) and the term “Lean” have received much attention from researchers and especially practitioners over the past 40 years. As scholarly perspectives on these topics continue to evolve, we invited Wally Hopp and Mark Spearman to contribute an essay to the JOM Forum that became “The Lenses of Lean,” and we invited several other prominent authors affiliated with Lean to react to that article and share their perspectives on Lean. We are delighted to have received four such contributions, which we have assembled here with the hope of furthering this important conversation (Note: For consistency of exposition, we have capitalized the term “Lean” throughout these commentaries when it is used in the phenomenological sense). —Tyson Browning and Suzanne de Treville.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	627-639
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Operations Management
Volume	67
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/joom.1138
State	Published - Jul 2021
Externally published	Yes

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Lean
Toyota Production System
process improvement
work flow
worker involvement

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Commentaries on “The Lenses of Lean”

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