Toyota Kata Culture

<p><strong>Take advantage of your organization's brainpower with Kata-driven continuous improvement</strong></p><p>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. <strong>Jeffrey K. Liker author of<em> The Toyota Way</em> (from the Foreword)</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>In his groundbreaking book <em>Toyota Kata</em> 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 level:</p><p>What is the <strong>target condition</strong>?<br/>What is the <strong>actual condition</strong>?<br/>What <strong>obstacles</strong> stand in the way of the target condition<strong>?</strong><br/>What is the <strong>next step</strong>?<br/>What have you<strong> learned </strong>from taking that step?</p><p>Illustrated cover to cover <em>Toyota Kata Culture</em> 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.</p><p>Achieve your goals and differentiate your organization by following the proven formula laid out in <em>Toyota Kata Culture</em>.</p>