Steven Spear
Management in health care system
IHI
Denmark
Biography
Steven Spear, DBA, MS, MS, Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management, is also Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. With expertise in operational excellence and innovation, he is a well-recognized expert on how select companies generate unmatchable performance by converting improvement and innovation into repeatable, broad-based, skill-based disciplines. A five-time Shingo Prize and McKinsey award winner, his “Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System” and “Learning to Lead at Toyota” are part of the lean manufacturing canon. His “Fixing Healthcare from the Inside, Today” and other clinical journal articles have been on the forefront in health care improvemen
Research Interest
t. He is author of the books The High Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition and Chasing the Rabbit: How Market Leaders Outdistance the Competition.
