Mike Rother: What Did Toyota Lose Sight Of? By Mike Rother, Author of Toyota Kata and co-author of Learning to See - Last updated: Sunday, February 7, 2010 - Save & Share - Leave a comment

It seems likely that as it grew rapidly, Toyota has gotten off its own track. That is, in its day-to-day management Toyota has deviated too far from the methods and routines, the kata, that made it so successful over the last six decades.

What Toyota may need to do — it has said as much itself — is to reapply its basic kata to get itself back on track.  And that very same kata is something that we still need to learn about, in regard to Toyota’s approach.

Click on the following link for a short elucidation:  ”What Toyota Lost Sight Of“ (enter this post for the link)