**Take advantage of your organization's brainpower with Kata-driven continuous improvement **"This is the first book I have read that provides a clear picture of what it takes to develop and mobilize creative capability across an organization, to achieve challenging goals."*Jeffrey K. Like...

**Take advantage of your organization's brainpower with Kata-driven continuous improvement **"This is the first book I have read that provides a clear picture of what it takes to develop and mobilize creative capability across an organization, to achieve challenging goals."*Jeffrey K. Liker, author of The Toyota Way * (from the Foreword)**Nobody drives continuous improvement in real, tangible ways like Toyota, where everyone at every level works toward common, customer-related goals. At Toyota, continuous improvement is habitual.

In his groundbreaking book* Toyota Kata *, Mike Rother revealed management practices that drive Toyota's success in providing value to their customers. Now, Rother and coauthor Gerd Aulinger provide the routines and know-how for scaling these practices across your entire organization. It all builds on five simple foundational questions at every level:

What is the target condition?

What is theactual condition?

Whatobstaclesstand in the way of the target condition** ?What is thenext step**?

What have youlearnedfrom taking that step?

Illustrated cover to cover,* Toyota Kata Culture *helps you visualize exactly how these methods work--so you can start putting them into action right away. You'll learn how to develop your own iterative process of trial and adjustment, build a deliberate, scientific-thinking culture that grows capability, and make aligned strategic continuous improvement part of everyday work.

Achieve your goals and differentiate your organization by following the proven formula laid out in* Toyota Kata Culture *.