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Ó 2006 Business Technology Management, Inc.
“Despite the huge influence of the Lean movement … most attempts to implement Lean have been fairly superficial.  The reason is that most companies have focused too heavily on tools such as 5S and just-in-time, without understanding Lean as an entire system…”
The Toyota Way, McGraw Hill
Jeffrey K. Liker, Ph.D.
Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering
University of Michigan