A Lean Journey and the Place for KATA: A Case Study, Lessons Learned and Results so Far - ERP Spain.com - España y América Latina

Together, the Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata are about the managerial context within which Toyota's Lean tools get used. It's about the people in an organization practicing and learning scientific, purpose-driven behavior. Toyota Kata gets to the essence of how Toyota manages continuous improvement and human ingenuity, and this webinar discusses what it takes to make it a part of an organization's culture.

In this webinar Wayne Meyer discusses the implemenation of KATA in GKN's Lean journey, going from stabilizing operations to involving everyone everyday in a scientific process of improvement and evolution. To do that GKN leverages the Toyota Kata approach to learning and coaching. It didn't happen without some lessons learned along the way, which Meyer will be sharing with you and you can take back and implement in your own organizations.

GKN practiced the prescribed daily KATA routines and has gotten remarkable results. Within one month GKN made lead time improvements in two value stream loops of 31% and 20%. As a former site leader Wayne can also convey to you some lessons KATA learned the hard way, and shorten your continuous improvement journey. If you stay within the KATA practice disciplines, especially as a beginner, it works.