Bøger af Mike Rother

"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 progressΓÇöand what it takes to make it a real part of your culture."ΓÇöJeffrey 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."ΓÇöThe Systems Thinker"How any organization in any industry can progress from old-fashioned management by results to a strikingly different and better way."ΓÇöJames 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."ΓÇöJohn Shook, Chairman and CEO, Lean Enterprise InstituteThis 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.

From the world's leading expert on implementing Toyota-style continuous improvement-two popular guides to achieving challenging goals in one convenient packageToyota Kata has become the tried and trusted way to develop an agile, scientific approach in any team or organization. This Toyota Kata two-in-one set provides the background knowledge and deployment how-to you need to master the most effective process known for achieving challenging goals-in any company, in any industry: Toyota Kata explains the scientific-thinking skill practice that has driven Toyota's success for decades. This book reveals a people-based management approach that makes continuous improvement and adaptiveness - a growth mindset - a part of everyday work. Toyota Kata Practice Guide focuses on implementation, showing anyone how to make scientific-thinking skill building work in their organization. Fully illustrated, it provides the "Starter Kata" practice routines for this winning approach, which you can build on to align with the needs of your company.You won't find a better kata guide than these two books together. The unchallenged global expert on Kata implementation, Mike Rother is the world's most sought-after expert on the topic. Seize the competitive edge, and enjoy the process, by launching and managing successful kata practice in your company with the best teacher in the business.