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3 5 A Lean Conclusion If we only periodically conduct training events or only episodically work on improvement – and the rest of the time it’s business as usual – then according to neuroscience what we’re actually practicing is. Mike's recent books are Toyota Kata (McGraw-Hill), Toyota Kata Culture, and the forthcoming Toyota Kata Practice Guide. Mike is an engineer, researcher, and teacher on the subjects of management, leadership, improvement, adaptiveness, and change in human organizations.
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247, Toyota Kata, by Mike Rother Info part of last Coaching Session. Info hasn’t been covered yet. Industrial Solutions - ISI Coaching Session. Aug 10, 2015 The improvement kata has four major steps: Those steps provide a structured pattern to enable consistent practice until they are unconscious and natural. In the fourth step, “Iterate Toward the Target Condition” we have a form, called the PDCA Cycles Record that provides an additional level of structure for the improver / learner and the.
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—Jeffrey K. Liker, bestselling author of The Toyota Way
'[Toyota Kata is] one of the stepping stones that will usher in a new era of management thinking.'
—The Systems Thinker
—The Systems Thinker
'How any organization in any industry can progress from old-fashioned management by results to a strikingly different and better way.'
—James P. Womack, Chairman and Founder, Lean Enterprise Institute
—James P. Womack, Chairman and Founder, Lean Enterprise Institute
'Practicing the improvement kata is perhaps the best way we've found so far for actualizing PDCA in an organization.'
—John Shook, Chairman and CEO, Lean Enterprise Institute
—John Shook, Chairman and CEO, Lean Enterprise Institute
This game-changing book puts you behind the curtain at Toyota, providing new insight into the legendary automaker's management practices and offering practical guidance for leading and developing people in a way that makes the best use of their brainpower.
Drawing on six years of research into Toyota's employee-management routines, Toyota Kata examines and elucidates, for the first time, the company's organizational routines—called kata—that power its success with continuous improvement and adaptation. The book also reaches beyond Toyota to explain issues of human behavior in organizations and provide specific answers to questions such as:
Toyota Kata Training
Mike Rother explains how to improve our prevailing management approach through the use of two kata: Improvement Kata—a repeating routine of establishing challenging target conditions, working step-by-step through obstacles, and always learning from the problems we encounter; and Coaching Kata: a pattern of teaching the improvement kata to employees at every level to ensure it motivates their ways of thinking and acting.
With clear detail, an abundance of practical examples, and a cohesive explanation from start to finish, Toyota Kata gives executives and managers at any level actionable routines of thought and behavior that produce superior results and sustained competitive advantage.
Publication Details
- Publisher:
- McGraw-Hill Education
- Imprint:
- McGraw-Hill
- Edition:
- 1
- Publication Date:
- 2009
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Mike Rother (Author)
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Mike Rother is an engineer, a teacher, and a guest researcher at the Technical University Dortmund. Rother's work has bought him to numerous companies and hundreds of factories around the world, where he collaborates with people to test ideas and ...