To me, what you're arguing for sounds like decentralization. Toyota's lean builds on decentralization of expertise and decision making, and that is what Americ

To me, what you're arguing for sounds like decentralization. Toyota's lean builds on decentralization of expertise and decision making, and that is what American and Western European companies miss and why their lean implementation efforts fail. Another success story is Handelsbanken, the only (?) European bank to not need govt bail outs in 2008. A third would be 3M and probably also Semco.