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ISBN
9780071635233
Book Title
Toyota KATA: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results
Item Length
9.2in
Publisher
Mcgraw-Hill Education
Publication Year
2009
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.2in
Author
Mike Rother
Genre
Transportation, Business & Economics
Topic
Training, Human Resources & Personnel Management, Total Quality Management, Industrial Management, Decision-Making & Problem Solving, Automotive / General
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
21.4 Oz
Number of Pages
336 Pages

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" Toyota Kata gets to the essence of how Toyota manages continuous improvement and human ingenuity, through its improvement kata and coaching kata. Mike Rother explains why typical companies fail to understand the core of lean and make limited progress--and what it takes to make it a real part of your culture." --Jeffrey K. Liker, bestselling author of The Toyota Way " Toyota Kata is] one of the stepping stones that will usher in a new era of management thinking." --The Systems Thinker "How any organization in any industry can progress from old-fashioned management by results to a strikingly different and better way." --James P. Womack, Chairman and Founder, Lean Enterprise Institute "Practicing the improvement kata is perhaps the best way we've found so far for actualizing PDCA in an organization." --John Shook, Chairman and CEO, Lean Enterprise Institute This game-changing book puts you behind the curtain at Toyota, providing new insight into the legendary automaker's management practices and offering practical guidance for leading and developing people in a way that makes the best use of their brainpower. Drawing on six years of research into Toyota's employee-management routines, Toyota Kata examines and elucidates, for the first time, the company's organizational routines--called kata --that power its success with continuous improvement and adaptation. The book also reaches beyond Toyota to explain issues of human behavior in organizations and provide specific answers to questions such as: How can we make improvement and adaptation part of everyday work throughout the organization? How can we develop and utilize the capability of everyone in the organization to repeatedly work toward and achieve new levels of performance? How can we give an organization the power to handle dynamic, unpredictable situations and keep satisfying customers? Mike Rother explains how to improve our prevailing management approach through the use of two kata: Improvement Kata--a repeating routine of establishing challenging target conditions, working step-by-step through obstacles, and always learning from the problems we encounter; and Coaching Kata: a pattern of teaching the improvement kata to employees at every level to ensure it motivates their ways of thinking and acting. With clear detail, an abundance of practical examples, and a cohesive explanation from start to finish, Toyota Kata gives executives and managers at any level actionable routines of thought and behavior that produce superior results and sustained competitive advantage.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Mcgraw-Hill Education
ISBN-10
0071635238
ISBN-13
9780071635233
eBay Product ID (ePID)
72770057

Product Key Features

Book Title
Toyota KATA: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results
Author
Mike Rother
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Training, Human Resources & Personnel Management, Total Quality Management, Industrial Management, Decision-Making & Problem Solving, Automotive / General
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Transportation, Business & Economics
Number of Pages
336 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
21.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Hd62.15.R685 2010
Table of Content
Introduction - Transforming our Understanding of Leadership and Management PART I: THE SITUATION Chapter 1: What Defines a Company that Thrives Long Term? PART II: KNOW YOURSELF Chapter 2: How Are We Approaching Process Improvement? Chapter 3: Philosophy and Direction Chapter 4: Origin and Effects of Our Current Management Approach PART III: THE IMPROVEMENT KATA: HOW TOYOTA CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVES Chapter 5: Planning: Establishing a Target Condition Chapter 6: Problem Solving and Adapting: Moving Toward a Target Condition PART IV: THE COACHING KATA: HOW TOYOTA TEACHES THE IMPROVEMENT KATA Chapter 7: Who Carries Out Process Improvement at Toyota? Chapter 8: The Coaching Kata - Leaders as Teachers PART V: REPLICATION: WHAT ABOUT OTHER COMPANIES? Chapter 9: Developing Improvement Kata Behavior in Your Organization Conclusion Bibliography Appendix 1: Where Do You Start With the Improvement Kata? Appendix 2: How to Analyze a Production Process
Copyright Date
2010
Lccn
2009-016344
Dewey Decimal
658.3/01
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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