How does it contribute ot the lean knowledge base?
It a sense, the book doesn’t just contribute; it is the base on which everything else is built. Although no one person invented lean, the Toyota Production System is held up as the model and no man contributed more than Taiichi Ohno. As a result, this book is to lean what Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations is to economics or Socrates is to philosophy. It was written after the fact, so it is not a documented history of what was going on during the most transformational years of the organization. It is the reflections of Ohno at the end of his career.
