The 7 Kata: Toyota Kata, TWI, and Lean Training by Conrad Soltero (English) Pape

Description: The 7 Kata by Conrad Soltero, Patrice Boutier The biggest competitive advantage an organization can achieve comes from the synergies created by employees skilled in enhancing organizational dynamics. The Seven Kata: Toyota Kata, TWI, and Lean Training supplies time-tested tools and advice to help readers adapt to changing conditions and outcompete their rivals. It explains why a mix of the skill sets that Training Within Industry (TWI) and the Toyota Kata (behavior patterns) teach is the ideal recipe to boost organizational synergies and enhance any Lean transformation. Bridging the kata/TWI nexus, the book lays out a road map for Lean success. It devotes a chapter to each of the Seven Kata and suggests possible courses of action dependent on your organizations strengths and constraints. Bringing together valuable information on many of the disjointed Lean practices, it explains key Lean concepts, including gemba walks, genchi gembutsu, and PDCA. After introducing kata, it reveals the different kata inherent in the three major TWI courses and the TWI Job Safety course. It illustrates the value stream analysis relationship to the kata and the kata relationship to TWI.It also demonstrates how to use kata to solve the problems identified in your value stream analysis while simultaneously conditioning your employees adaptive thinking patterns. Supplying a clear understanding of exactly where the seven kata apply in your Lean journey, the authors include helpful guidelines for coaching a kata. They also highlight mistakes they have experienced or witnessed so you can avoid the same pitfalls. As globalism continues to make managements organizational skills a competitive differentiator, this book provides you with the tools to use the seven kata to place your organization on a discernible path towards operational excellence. Listen to what Pat Boutier has to say about The Seven Kata. Part One - Part Two FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The biggest competitive advantage an organization can achieve comes from the synergies created by employees skilled in enhancing organizational dynamics. The Seven Kata: Toyota Kata, TWI, and Lean Training supplies time-tested tools and advice to help readers adapt to changing conditions and outcompete their rivals. It explains why a mix of the skill sets that Training Within Industry (TWI) and the Toyota Kata (behavior patterns) teach is the ideal recipe to boost organizational synergies and enhance any Lean transformation.Winner of a 2013 Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence!Bridging the kata/TWI nexus, the book lays out a road map for Lean success. It devotes a chapter to each of the Seven Kata and suggests possible courses of action dependent on your organizations strengths and constraints. Bringing together valuable information on many of the disjointed Lean practices, it explains key Lean concepts, including gemba walks, genchi gembutsu, and PDCA.After introducing kata, it reveals the different kata inherent in the three major TWI courses and the TWI Job Safety course. It illustrates the value stream analysis relationship to the kata and the kata relationship to TWI. It also demonstrates how to use kata to solve the problems identified in your value stream analysis while simultaneously conditioning your employees adaptive thinking patterns.Supplying a clear understanding of exactly where the seven kata apply in your Lean journey, the authors include helpful guidelines for coaching a kata. They also highlight mistakes they have experienced or witnessed so you can avoid the same pitfalls. As globalism continues to make managements organizational skills a competitive differentiator, this book provides you with the tools to use the seven kata to place your organization on a discernible path towards operational excellence. Listen to what Pat Boutier has to say about The Seven Kata. Part One — Part Two Author Biography Patrice Boutier, Conrad Soltero Table of Contents Foreword, Foreword, Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgments, 1 Weapons for the Economic Warrior, 2 Improvement Kata: Kaizen, 3 Nested Job Instruction Kata: Learn to Teach, 4 Coaching Kata: Teaching to Learn, 5 Problem-Solving Kata: Seek to Understand Kata, 6 Job Relations Kata: The Cultural Fortifier, 7 Job Safety Kata: The Duplex Kata, 8 Job Methods Kata: Kiplings Kata, 9 Submit to the Kata, Appendix: Lean Training Within Industry (TWI) Timeline, References, Biographies Details ISBN1439880778 Author Patrice Boutier Year 2012 ISBN-10 1439880778 ISBN-13 9781439880777 Media Book Short Title 7 KATA Language English Pages 191 Imprint Productivity Press Place of Publication Portland Country of Publication United States Format Paperback Subtitle Toyota Kata, TWI, and Lean Training Affiliation TMAC AU Release Date 2012-06-22 NZ Release Date 2012-06-22 US Release Date 2012-06-22 UK Release Date 2012-06-22 Publication Date 2012-06-22 Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc Alternative 9781138438378 DEWEY 658.301 Illustrations 36 Illustrations, black and white Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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