Toyota Kata Podcast

This podcast brings you audio about "Toyota Kata" from online videos and webinars, reformatted to make it easy to listen while driving, walking, or traveling. Content is used with the permission of Mike Rother and others who originally created the content. The podcast is produced by Mark Graban.

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Mike Rother's Keynote from KataCon5

Hi, this is Mark Graban. In this episode of the Kata Cast, I’m sharing audio that Mike Rother asked me to post here. It’s the audio of his opening keynote from the recent KataCon5 event. Thanks to my friends at Gemba Academy, sponsors of KataCon5, for recording and releasing a new video series from the KataCon. Please listen and share with your team as a lead-up to KataCon6 , February 20-21, 2020 in Austin, TX. You won't want to miss what is shaping up to be a great gathering of learning and net...

Sep 03, 2019•41 min

Rother: Starter Kata in 4 Minutes

Mike Rother... Starter Kata are basic practice routines you begin with, to get skill fundamentals. The goal is to internalize each Starter Kata's pattern, so you can then build on and adapt that pattern under a variety of circumstances with little thought or hesitation. The Toyota Kata Starter Kata help anyone develop greater powers of scientific thinking, which equips you to meet all sorts of challenging goals. More information is in the 'Toyota Kata Practice Guide' at: https://tinyurl.com/TK-P...

Apr 10, 2019•5 min

Habits for Continuous Learning and Improvement

Presentation by Hakan Forss at European Lean Educator Conference (ELEC) on 09/18/2014 at Stuttgart (edited from 34 minutes to 13 by Mike Rother).

Jan 02, 2016•14 min

Coaching Kata Mistakes, Michael Lombard

This presentation is from March 2014, by Michael Lombard. "These are the mistakes I've made as a Toyota Kata-style coach that have produced the best lessons learned for me. Hopefully you can build upon my mistakes and lessons learned to expedite your own Kata learning journey."

Dec 29, 2015•22 min

Mike Rother, Toyota Kata Research

To see the video, visit this forwarding URL: http://www.leanblog.orgkata5 This presentation gives a useful summary of the Toyota Kata research and explains what the Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata are about. This presentation was made by Mike Rother at the HEC Montréal Business School on November 3, 2015. RESOURCES: - For a more detailed description of the Toyota Kata Research go to: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mrothe... - The "Five Question Card," the "IK/CK Practice Guide" and a set of I...

Nov 29, 2015•40 min

Kata: Cookshack Case Study

Hi welcome to episode 4 of KataCast. This episode is a case study that was presented by Stuart Powell from Cookshack, a talk given in October 2015 at the 2015 Oklahoma Conference on Manufacturing. This audio comes from a video posted on Mike Rother's YouTube channel (his channel ID is 734mike) and you can find the video by using the forwarding URL www.leanblog.org/kata4. The Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata (IK/CK) are practice routines ("Starter Kata") that help turn anyone into an experiment...

Nov 15, 2015•14 min

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