The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses · chapter 4 · id the-lean-startup-c4-04-the-toyota-production-system-t
“The Toyota Production System (TPS) directly inspired the lean startup methodology, creating a lineage from manufacturing lean to startup lean.”
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TPS is a production system focused on eliminating waste (muda), unevenness (mura), and overburden (muri) in manufacturing processes.
Shah & Ward (2007), Defining and developing measures of lean production, Journal of Operations ManagementFLAGGED: DOI not in registry
Lean production is a multi-dimensional approach that encompasses a wide variety of management practices. The translation from manufacturing to knowledge work involves significant abstraction losses.
The Lean Startup official principlessource alive
Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on validated learning, rapid scientific experimentation.
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