The Toyota Production System (TPS) revolutionized manufacturing worldwide. Today, its application goes beyond manufacturing, impacting transactional processes from healthcare services to software design.
The TPS is, in fact, a multidisciplinary science that can be taught and applied more widely—not just to business haphazardly, but systematically to the broader aspects of our economies. I would argue that it offers solutions to the pervasive financial, socioeconomic and environmental contradictions in today’s society.