Toyota Kata

Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results

Must read for continuous improvement

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some of the key elements of the toyota way !!

• Continuous improvement
• Blameless postmortems
• Constantly getting feedback
• Rapid prototyping
• Metrics & Measurements
• Lean (eliminating waste)
• Observe the bottlenecks - go back and observer again
• Automation
• Create standards
• Making work visible to expose problems
• Improve your team , group
• Organizational learning - leaders as teachers - mentorship
• Resolve conflicts (problems) when it’s hot (occurs)
• Problem solving: Identify cause and solve it quickly - then go back and fix it by changing one thing at a time.
• Problems will occur.

also … try to remember to pull the “Andon cord ” when an error occur in production !!!