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title: How Standardized Work Integrates People with Process
description: John Shook explains why he thinks “the Toyota Way is a socio-technical system on steroids” that brings together people (social) and processes (technical) to bear on purpose.
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"I like to say that the Toyota Way is a socio-technical system on steroids. A test for all our lean systems is the question of how well we integrate people with process (the social with the technical). Nowhere does that come together more than in the form of standardized work and kaizen."

## John Shook

 

 

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# How Standardized Work Integrates People with Process

 

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