Steven J. Spear
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Steven J. Spear

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Steven Spear (DBA MS MS) is author of the award winning and critically acclaimed book, The High Velocity Edge, of Wiring the Winning Organization (with Gene Kim) and the forewords for several other books. He is a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management and is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. He is also a founder of See to Solve Corp, a business process software company. An expert about how 'high velocity organizations' generate and sustain advantage, even in the most hyper competitive markets, Spear has worked with clients spanning high tech and heavy industry, software and healthcare, and new production design and manufacturing. He helped develop and deploy the Alcoa Business System, which recorded hundreds of millions of dollars in operating savings, and he was integral in developing the 'Perfecting Patient Care' system for the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative. PRHI hospitals scored well documented reductions and eliminations of scourges like central line associated infections, surgical site infections, and patient falls. Along with the removal of unnecessary suffering and fatality were reductions in overburden on staff, and improvements in quality of care. Spear has published in the NY Times, the Boston Globe, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Academic Medicine, and he has spoken to audiences ranging from the Association for Manufacturing Excellence to the Institute of Medicine. His 1999 Harvard Business Review article, "Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System," is part of the 'lean manufacturing' canon, and "Fixing Healthcare from the Inside, Today" was an HBR McKinsey Award winner in 2005 and one of his four articles to win a Shingo Research Prize. Previously employed by Prudential-Bache, the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment, the University of Tokyo, and Harvard Business School, Spear has a doctorate from Harvard Business School, masters in engineering and in management from MIT, and a bachelors degree in economics from Princeton.
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