Toyota Kata Culture: Building Organizational Capability and Mindset through Kata Coaching

by Mike Rother, Gerd Aulinger

Take advantage of your organization’s brainpower with Kata-driven continuous improvement “This is the first book I have read that provides a clear picture of what it takes to develop and mobilize creative capability across an organization, to achieve challenging goals.” Jeffrey K. Liker, author of The Toyota Way (from the Foreword) Nobody drives continuous improvement in real, tangible ways like Toyota, where everyone at every level works toward common, customer-related goals. At Toyota, continuous improvement is habitual. In his groundbreaking book Toyota Kata , Mike Rother revealed management practices that drive Toyota’s success in providing value to their customers. Now, Rother and coauthor Gerd Aulinger provide the routines and know-how for scaling these practices across your entire organization. It all builds on five simple foundational questions at every What is the target condition ?
What is the actual condition ?
What obstacles stand in the way of the target condition ?
What is the next step ?
What have you learned from taking that step? Illustrated cover to cover, Toyota Kata Culture helps you visualize exactly how these methods work―so you can start putting them into action right away. You’ll learn how to develop your own iterative process of trial and adjustment, build a deliberate, scientific-thinking culture that grows capability, and make aligned strategic continuous improvement part of everyday work. Achieve your goals and differentiate your organization by following the proven formula laid out in Toyota Kata Culture .

Genres: Management, Business

176 pages, Spiral-bound

Published May 16, 2017

Reviews

[Martin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very hands on and practical, if you've not read the original book.
Could do with a version *not* in manufacturing (ideally in knowledge work)

[Bjoern Rochel · Rating 3 out of 5]

The only Kata book I know that shows how Kata can scale across multiple management levels. Since I've read some others now, the rest wasn't particular new or interesting to me, but I appreciate how the book tries to depict the whole process along the lines of a case study. What I still find a bit unfortunate is the heavy manufacturing influence on the examples/case studies. It's natural given where TK originated, but given the somehow universal applicability of it's core concepts, it would also be great to have something like this focussed on a more knowledge worker domain.

[victor · Rating 4 out of 5]

Buen libro para continuar creando organizaciones que aprenden

Una buena guía para llevar la práctica del aprendizaje y mejora continua a nivel organizacional. Deja bastante claro el ciclo de coaching a todos los niveles

[Oscar Villegas · Rating 4 out of 5]

muy digerible y práctico, bueno para entender la practica que realizan en Toyota pero no para profundizar más en el tema.

[Harish Gupta]

Very bookish and boring

I read this book and stopped after a few pages. It’s too technical and boring. You need to have a compartmental mind to understand the Japanese way or working.