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John Shook (born 1952, Tennessee, USA) is an industrial anthropologist.

He was the first American employee at Toyota’s world headquarters in the 1970s and its first American “kacho” (manager) in Japan.[1] [2] He was part of the team sent by Toyota from Japan in 1984 to help open their first plant in the USA, the NUMMI plant in Fremont, California, jointly owned by General Motors and Toyota.[3]

He introduced the widespread business practice of Value Stream Mapping and popularised A3 problem solving.

He has been affiliated with the University of Michigan, where he was director of the Japan Technological Management Program and faculty member of the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering.[4][5]

He is also affiliated with the Lean Enterprise Institute, where he was a senior advisor from 1997 when it was founded by management expert James P. Womack, and served as its chairman from 2010 to 2019[6]

Publications

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  • Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Add Value and Eliminate MUDA (1998)
  • Managing to Learn (2008)
  • Kaizen Express (2009)
  • Toyota’s Secret: The A3 Report (2009)
  • How to Change a Culture: Lessons from NUMMI (2010)

Awards

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  • Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing Research: Research and Professional Publication Award, 1999 and 2009[7]
  • Sloan’s Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize for outstanding article in the field of organizational development[8]
  • Association for Manufacturing Excellence Hall of Fame, 2013[9]

References

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  1. ^ "Setting the record straight on lean". MIT Sloan Management Review. Retrieved 2024-10-29.
  2. ^ "John Shook". Association for Manufacturing Excellence. Retrieved 2024-10-29.
  3. ^ "The 2011 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize". MIT Sloan Management Review. Retrieved 2024-10-29.
  4. ^ "Learning from Japan's Technology Management". University of Michigan International Institute. Retrieved 2024-10-29.
  5. ^ "Japan Technology Management Program, The University of Michigan, Final Technical Report" (PDF). Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Retrieved 2024-10-29.
  6. ^ "Lean Enterprise Institute Names Jean Cunningham as Its New Executive Chairman". Lean Enterprise Institute. Retrieved 2024-10-28.
  7. ^ "Publication Award". Shingo Institute. Retrieved 2024-10-28.
  8. ^ "The 2011 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize". MIT Sloan Management Review. Retrieved 2024-10-28.
  9. ^ "AME Hall of Fame". 21 January 2015. Retrieved 2024-10-28.