Toyota Kata Culture: Building Organizational Capability and Mindset through Kata Coaching

Making an Aligned Organization a Reality

This book paints a picture of how you can turn strategy and execution into everyday activity at all levels. The Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata are about practicing routines of goal-oriented creativity so they become habitual and help you build a deliberate, scientific thinking culture. As teams inside an organization pursue their individual goals, they are united by an overarching strategic challenge and a scientific way of thinking and working.

This is some of the essence of what the Lean community calls “policy deployment,” “policy management,” “hoshin kanri,” or “strategy deployment.”

An organization ...