Learning to See (which I co-authored with John Shook

and Jim Womack), is a popular instruction manual

for Value Stream Mapping (VSM). Since the book’s

publication in 1999, VSM has become the tool for

analyzing & designing work flows at the door-to-door

system level.

But what do you do once you have a future state map

with your design for an improved value stream? That’s

where Toyota Kata comes in and helps you turn what

your map depicts into reality. VSM provides a sense

of direction ... Toyota Kata gets you there.

Toyota Kata Culture (TKC) is my follow-on publication to Learning to See, picking up

where LTS left off. The two books go together as a set.

Unlike improving a single process, a value stream design involves several departments

and processes, and many people. Essentially you are trying to deploy a strategy you’ve

designed. Based on real cases, the TKC book shows you how TK-practicing organizations

coordinate and align that effort, and sharpen their scientific-thinking skills at the same time.

For a quick overview of TKC, click here to read the Preface -->

Click through the SlideShare below to learn about using value stream mapping

together with Toyota Kata. Click the icon to download the PowerPoint slides. -->

VSM = Design. TK = How to Deploy That Design.