Toyota Kata – Managing for Improvement and Innovation

Lean Kanban Conference

Vienna, October 22, 2012

Utrecht, October 25, 2012

Presentation by Steve Medland with permission and full

credit to Mike Rother.

Agenda • Brief description of the five Kata routines

• Discussion of why the routines of TK can be helpful

Another Way to Look at it.

Years Weeks

Another Way to Look at it.

Our obstacles become clear to

us after we establish a Target

Condition

Successive target conditions move

us toward our Vision

a

b

c

4 Categories of Information

How the game is played.

What’s the score

C O

A C

H I

N G

K

A T

A The Five Questions

1) What is the Target Condition?

2) What is the Actual Condition now?

----------------- Turn Card Over ------------------>

3) What Obstacles do you think are preventing

you from reaching the target condition?

Which One are you addressing now?

4) What is your Next Step (next PDCA/experiment)

What do you Expect?

5) When can we go and see what we

have learned from taking that step?

First Coaching

Cycle

Second Cycle

and Beyond

Reflect on the Last Step Taken

1) What was your Last Step?

2) What did you Expect?

3) What Actually Happened?

4) What did you Learn?

Return --------->

Because you don’t actually know what the result of a step will be!

C O

A C

H I

N G

K

A T

A The Five Questions

1) What is the Target Condition?

2) What is the Actual Condition now?

----------------- Turn Card Over ------------------>

3) What Obstacles do you think are preventing

you from reaching the target condition?

Which One are you addressing now?

4) What is your Next Step (next PDCA/experiment)

What do you Expect?

5) When can we go and see what we

have learned from taking that step?

Why are the TK routines effective?

Dice Experiment

Management is about mobilizing Ingenuity in an organization

Resources For further information…

2) Toyota Kata Learning Network Post your questions from your actual practicing

3) Toyota Kata QUICK START To begin practicing now.