Bio
Steven J. Spear, five-time winner of the Shingo Prize for research excellence and recipient of the McKinsey Award, is a senior lecturer at MIT and former assistant professor at Harvard. A senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, he is the author of numerous articles appearing in academic and trade publications, including the Harvard Business Review, Annals of Internal Medicine, Academic Medicine, The Boston Globe, and The New York Times. An active public speaker, he has addressed audiences as diverse as the Association for Manufacturing Excellence, the Shingo Prize Annual Conference, and the Institute of Medicine.
In his consulting practice, Spear works with organizations to develop the capabilities of high velocity about which he writes. This involves developing senior leadership’s understanding and training a cadre of internal process experts whose system expertise compliments the functional expertise that exists within specialties and disciplines. His clients span a broad range of industrial, high tech, software, service, and healthcare organizations.
Reach Steve Spear at Chasing@StevenJSpear.com