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© Mike Rother TOYOTA KATA
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Finding Your Way to the Future
April 2010
Copyright © 2010 Mike Rother, all rights reserved.
1217 Baldwin Avenue / Ann Arbor, MI 48104 USA / tel: (734) 665-5411 / [email protected]
This insightful further development of the core diagram in the book Toyota Kata comes from Jeff Uitenbroek of Modine Manufacturing Company.
Jeff's depiction helps make it clear thatthe improvement kata is a different wayof working, thinking and managing.
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In most processes there are many problems, wastes and opportunities to improve
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With this approach we:
• May not achieve meaningful improvementthat moves the organization forward
• Misspend our capacity for making improvements
• Don!t learn much
We tend to ask, “What can we do to improve?,” hunt for wastes or respond to problems,
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. “Whack-a-mole” improvement
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With it we ask: “What do we need to do?”
while working step-by-steptoward the next target condition
on the way to a vision
PDCA cycles toward the next target condition
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What kind of improver are you?
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