The power of Kata differs than most Lean thinking. Most efforts with Lean in Sales and Marketing focuses on the use of the “Why” question; solving problems and offering solutions. Kata focuses on the “What” creating situational awareness. At the basic level (Why) and what I might call the commodity trap, we still need to solve Read More …
The Improvement Kata + Coaching Kata (IK/CK) are about deliberate practice to develop scientific-thinking skill and mindset. That means IK/CK works well in combination with your existing Lean efforts. Based on the book: Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results by Mike Rother. The Five-Question card is available at http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mrother/KATA_Files/KC2_Opening.pptx There is a related Read More …
Re-reading One Little Spark!: Mickey’s Ten Commandments and The Road to Imagineering this weekend, one commandment of Marty Sklar’s resonates with me being a person of Lean Discipline, more than others is Commandment #3: Organize the Flow of People and Ideas. First, giving you a quick overview of the book will help you understand the Read More …
Shirly Ronen-Harel is an Agile and Lean Coach and author of two books, Agile Kids and The Coaching Booster. Shirly provides Agile and lean solutions using methods like Scrum, Kanban, Agile Testing, Agile product, DevOps , agile project management and such. In the companies she works with, Shirly is an integral part of elevating organization productivity and their Read More …
I was first introduced to creative tension in Senge’s work in ‘The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization,’ and later was able to have a podcast with Robert Fritz who Senge had attributed the work. However, Fritz called it structural tension and explained it in detail in the book, Path of Read More …
The brilliant part about the Kata is that it lays out a method and a routine, and if you follow the routine, you can learn it by yourself. I mean it takes some discipline in doing it, but it’s not rocket science. It is asking before telling. It’s observing, before doing it yourself and it Read More …