Definition
Danaher Business System: a management system that starts from the voice of the customer and uses full participation to continuously improve quality, delivery, and cost in pursuit of world-class excellence (the 2020 glossary lists three dimensions; the official DBS Introduction adds a fourth — innovation).
In detail
The DBS Overview summarizes the Danaher Business System. It starts with the Voice of the Customer and pursues world-class quality, delivery, and cost performance through organization-wide participation and continuous improvement; this overview itself is a third-party (investor/enablement-circle) explainer, not official training material. It helps readers understand the overall DBS framework and philosophy; unlike DBS deployment, it focuses on the concepts rather than operating detail. Typical outputs include training materials and visual aids such as the DBS Wheel.
Example in practice
A reader curious about lean wants a quick grounding in the Danaher Business System and finds a third-party DBS overview. From it they learn DBS's history, the five tenets, and the QDCI framework, along with the idea that "improvement is everyone's responsibility." Afterward they understand the overall DBS framework, but to learn the actual operating detail they still need to attend formal DBS deployment training.