Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results

by Mike Rother

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071635238
• ISBN13: 9780071635233
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Brilliant

The Toyota Way is a great introduction into Toyota and lean manufacturing. This book builds on top of that but instead of simple going over pull vs push inventory and the like from a theoretical standpoint actually gives reasons and examples of why companies are failing to implement lean. This is because these companies truly don't know the real methods and thinking behind lean and instead try to implement it at face value.