Wiring to win
Overview
The Paradox: The gap between the best and everyone else is massive—and visible across every competitive dimension.
Why It Matters: Great performance depends on fast, continuous problem-solving before and during the work. Do this well and you deploy solutions safer, faster, and more often. Fail, and you’re always behind.
What the Best Do Differently: They “wire” their organizations with routines that unlock everyone’s intellect, not just a select few. Rivals show up with only a small slice of their brainpower on the field—a total mismatch.
Host Company
See to Solve was created by Dr. Steven Spear of MIT Sloan School of Management who noticed that small sparks persistently turned into big fires, damaged productivity, and even dethroned once-dominant companies. This is why Dr. Spear and his team created See to Solve: so responders know right away where their help is needed, so problems don’t fester, and managers have rich, real-time data to see where and why their attention should be directed.
Presenter
Dr. Steve Spear, DBA, MS, MS, senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and founder of the business process software firm See to Solve, is known to practitioners as the author of articles like “Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System” and “Fixing Healthcare from the Inside, Today,” and his books The High-Velocity Edge and Wiring the Winning Organization. His writing has garnered Philip Crosby Medals and a number of Shingo Awards. Deeply grounded in what actually happens at the point of work, Steve helped architect Pittsburgh’s Perfecting Patient Care System, the Alcoa Business System, the DTE Energy Operating System, Pratt & Whitney’s Engineering Standard Work, and he’s been instrumental in big wins at Intel, a number of healthcare providers, Intuit, and various commands in the Army and Navy. A 30-year (and counting) student of Toyota, he helped create TPS for Executives, an intensive boot camp for North American suppliers’ leaders. He’s a long-serving a member of the GBMP Consulting Group’s board. His wife, Miriam, is an architect whose practice focuses on community buildings that help build community.
Agenda
Thursday, February 19, 2026
4 p.m. Welcome and AME events
4:10 p.m. Presentation
4:50 p.m. Q&A
5 p.m. End
PARTICIPANT BENEFITS
- Slowification: Making problem-solving easier to do.
- Simplification: Making problems easier to solve.
- Amplification: Making problems visible earlier and more often.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
C-Suite, HR, Lean Practitioners, Managers and Supervisors
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