HOW TO DEPLOY THE IMPROVEMENT KATA

By , Gerd Aulinger, Beth Carrington, Bill Costantino and Mike Rother

September 1, 2014

This month's IK/CK SlideShare is a detailed description of how to deploy a Coach/Learner structure in your organization, to teach people the scientific patterns of the Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata. We've been evolving this SlideShare based on our experiences since it was first posted in 2011. Use it as a guide for your own deployment efforts!

Written by:

|Gerd Aulinger|

Beth Carrington

|Bill Costantino|Mike Rother

About Beth Carrington

Since 1999, Beth has dedicated her career to coaching organizations through their lean transformations as an independent consultant and instructor at LEI and other global organizations, such as the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). As an Improvement Kata/Coaching Kata Master Coach since 2009, Beth has worked with organizations to build…

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About Mike Rother

Mike is co-author of two groundbreaking LEI workbooks, Learning to See: value-stream mapping to add value and eliminate muda, which received a Shingo Research Award in 1999 and Creating Continuous Flow: an action guide for managers, engineers and production associates, which received a Shingo Award in 2003. Mike’s recent books are Toyota Kata (McGraw-Hill), Toyota Kata Culture, and the forthcoming Toyota Kata Practice Guide.

Mike is an engineer, researcher, and teacher on the subjects of management, leadership, improvement, adaptiveness, and change in human organizations. His affiliations have included the Industrial Technology Institute in Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan College of Engineering, the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation, Stuttgart, and the Technical University Dortmund. Mike works to develop scientific thinking in individuals, teams and organizations, shares his findings widely, and is in the Association for Manufacturing Excellence Hall of Fame.

About Gerd Aulinger, Bill Costantino and

Gerd Aulinger has worked as a researcher, consultant, seminar leader, production manager and speaker for the past 12 years. After research work at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation in Stuttgart Gerd became an internal lean consultant for DaimlerChrysler AG, where he managed various lean projects and won two MPS prizes and an MPS award. From 2007 to 2011 he was a production manager at Festool’s prize-winning Neidlingen plant, where he worked with his team to develop a highly-motivated, learning organization. Gerd currently coaches managers in the application of the Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata, with a view to achieving exceptional results.