Make improvement a daily habit.
KATA is a structured, repeatable routine for improving the work, rooted in scientific thinking and inspired by Toyota KATA. Small steps every day, coached by your own leaders, instead of one-time initiatives that fade out.
Small steps beat big initiatives.
Most improvement efforts start with a kickoff and end when the attention moves somewhere else. KATA works the other way. The team knows the target, sees where it stands today, takes the next small step and learns from what happened.
A coach asks the same short set of questions every cycle. After enough cycles, thinking scientifically stops being a training topic and becomes the way the team works.
Daily improvement habits
Teams make small, purposeful changes every day, and those changes compound into big results over time.
Scientific thinking
People learn to test ideas, see what happens and adapt, instead of guessing and hoping.
Empowered teams
The people closest to the work get the structure and confidence to solve problems at the source.
Three places to start.
Improve flow, reduce waste and solve production problems through daily coaching cycles.
Build leaders who coach their people instead of firefighting for them.
Give lean and change efforts a daily routine, so they keep running when the launch energy is gone.
We ran KATA in a plant before we taught it.
Dave brought KATA into 3M's Knoxville, Iowa plant while he was running operations there, inside a focus factory with $300 million in annual production value. The routine had to hold up under real production pressure first.
That's the version we bring to your team. It's practical, it fits into the shift, and it's coached by your leaders, not by us forever.
"Dave has a unique way of helping you see things differently. He asks the right questions that make you think deeper about your goals and mindset."Mindset Innovations client
Bring KATA to your organization.
Build a culture where improvement is the daily routine, not a one-time event. No fluff, just a routine your teams will keep running.