Welcome to the Toyota Kata website
Welcome to the Toyota Kata website
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Improvement Kata
What is
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2.
Kata Creates
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Patterns to practice, to create the future!

My name is Mike Rother. I investigate issues of management,
leadership, improvement, adaptiveness and change. The
findings explained in the book Toyota Kata will change how
you view management, innovation and lean. This website
is a companion to the book, where I put things we're learning.
Toyota Kata describes two patterns to practice
-- the Improvement Kata & the Coaching Kata --
to develop more scientific and effective habits
for improving, adapting and innovating.
It's important to realize that it's not solutions themselves that
give us sustained competitive advantage and progress. It's the
degree to which people in organizations practice, apply and
master a kata for developing solutions and meeting challenges.
It's a process that can be learned and taught.
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