We’ve been copying visible aspects of Toyota’s A3 tool, but not the less visible way the A3 is used at Toyota.
At Toyota, the manager has their learner iterate *throughout the entire process* of using the A3 format. This is different from traditional Western business thinking, and westerners tend to treat the A3 as simply writing a plan.
TOYOTA KATA makes Toyota’s more scientific way of working visible and transferrable, by giving you Starter Kata for practicing it.
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Meeting the unprecedented challenges we face today is going to require that we practice and learn a different way of working together. Fortunately it is also an enjoyable way to work!
• Solving individual problems is not enough. We need to be striving toward something! Where do we want to be in future?
• The paths for getting there are not clear in advance. Plans & proposed countermeasures are only predictions, made at the point of greatest uncertainty about how things will go.😯 Find the way by working scientifically; experimenting against the obstacles you encounter.