Chasing the Rabbit: How Market Leaders Outdistance the Competition and How Great Companies Can Catch Up and Win, Foreword by Clay Christensen

by Steven J. Spear

Overview

• Spear’s reputation as a thought leader is recognized by elite media, publications, and conferences including Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, Boston Globe, Bloomberg Business Radio, the Shingo Prize, and the Association for Manufacturing Excellence
• The pioneering insights in Chasing the Rabbit are based on original thinking in the tradition of Jim Collins, C.K. Prahalad, Clayton Christensen, and Michael Porter.
• Spear is one of the most astute business thinkers and prolific writers to emerge in the recent past; his Harvard Business Review articles are among its most popular reprints.
• Spear is a four-time Shingo Prize winner and a winner of the McKinsey Award
• Includes examples from global market leaders including Toyota, Vanguard, Southwest Airlines, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Alcoa

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071641517
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	09/21/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Steven J. Spear is a Senior Lecturer at MIT and aSenior Fellow at the Institute forHealthcare Improvement. Formerlyan assistant professor at HarvardBusiness School, he is also a frequentcontributor to the HarvardBusiness Review.

Table of Contents

1. Why We Need an Operations-Based Model of Competition
2. Competing through Capabilities + “Lean Manufacturing” and Its Discontents)
3. Managing Organizations to be the Ultimate Learning Machines: Capabilities of the Operationally Superlative
4. Capability 1: Designing Processes As Experiments to Reveal Problems
5. Capability 2: Solving Problems Experimentally to Generate Knowledge: Don’t Think, Do (Don’t Tweak)
6. Capability 3: Sharing Knowledge through Collaborative, Experimental Problem-Solving
7. Capability 4: Developing People through Coached Problem-Solving
8. Getting Started—Creating a Context Conducive to Experimental Learning