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.

Weeks

Years

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

4 Categories
of Information

How the
game is
played.

Whats
the score

COACHING KATA

First Coaching
Cycle
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?

COACHING KATA

Second Cycle
and Beyond
The Five Questions
1)

What is the Target Condition?

2)

What is the Actual Condition now?

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

3)

4)
5)

What Obstacles do you think are preventing

you from reaching the target condition?
Which One are you addressing now?
What is your Next Step (next PDCA/experiment)
What do you Expect?
When can we go and see what we
have learned from taking that step?

Reflect on the Last Step Taken

Because you dont actually know
what the result of a step will be!

1) What was your Last Step?

2) What did you Expect?

3) What Actually Happened?
4) What did you Learn?
Return --------->

Why are the TK routines effective?

Dice Experiment

Management is about mobilizing

Ingenuity in an organization

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For further information

2) Toyota Kata Learning Network

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