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Chapter 11 Applying Kata in Healthcare

Ann Hill and Graham Canning

DOI: 10.4324/9780429346958-11

Contents

The Improvement Kata

The Coaching Kata

Applying Scientific Thinking

Case Study: Practising Kata in an Organisation Getting Started

Kata as a Modifier of Culture

Developing a Cohort of Learners

Establishing Coaching Capacity and Capability

Scaling Kata across an Organisation

Success Factors for Applying Kata

Risks and Barriers to Success

Top Tips for Getting Started

Learning Points

Acknowledgements

Aims

To identify reasons why success in project-based applications of Lean may not result in organisation-wide gains.
To describe Toyota Kata, a term coined ...

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