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Commentaries on “The Lenses of Lean”
Author(s) -
Cusumano Michael A.,
Holweg Matthias,
Howell Josh,
Netland Torbjørn,
Shah Rachna,
Shook John,
Ward Peter,
Womack James
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of operations management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.649
H-Index - 191
eISSN - 1873-1317
pISSN - 0272-6963
DOI - 10.1002/joom.1138
Subject(s) - conversation , lean manufacturing , exposition (narrative) , phenomenon , consistency (knowledge bases) , sociology , psychology , management , business , computer science , epistemology , art , literature , marketing , philosophy , communication , artificial intelligence , economics
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