Comparative analysis reveals nine core principle classes across eight operational excellence frameworks, highlighting shared technical and socio-cultural foundations.
Key Points
Identify convergence across operational excellence models and establish an integrated classification to overcome conceptual fragmentation in the field.
Conducted an integrative cross-model analysis examining eight prominent operational excellence frameworks: Lean Thinking, Toyota Way, Shingo, Deming, EFQM, MBNQA, Agile, and DevOps.
Extracted explicit principles from each framework and clustered them based on conceptual equivalence.
Identified nine recurring core principle classes: Respect for People, Teamwork, Transformational Leadership, Continuous Improvement, Process Knowledge, Pull Flow, Quality at the Source, Higher Purpose, and Customer-Oriented Value.
Demonstrated that disparate operational excellence traditions share a consistent foundational core encompassing both technical tools and socio-cultural practices.