Mike Rother
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Mike Rother is an engineer, a researcher, teacher and speaker on the subjects of management, leadership, improvement, adaptiveness, and change in human organizations. He has been a member of the Industrial Technology Institute (Ann Arbor), the University of Michigan College of Engineering
, the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (Stuttgart), and the Technical University Dortmund.
Rother is co-author of the Lean Enterprise Institute publication Learning to See, which introduced Value Stream Mapping
(VSM). VSM is a tool for visualizing flows of material and information across multiple processes, so that individual process-level improvement efforts fit together as a flowing value stream, match the organization's objectives, and serve the requirements of external customers.
His latest book, Toyota Kata
, is based on research into Toyota's managerial patterns. It examines the company's routines of dialogues and practices - called kata
- that are used to make creativity, adaptation and innovation day-to-day experiences.
University of Michigan College of Engineering
The University of Michigan College of Engineering is the engineering unit of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. With an enrollment of 5,514 undergraduate and 2,646 graduate students as of 2009, the College of Engineering is one of the premier engineering schools in the United States...
, the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (Stuttgart), and the Technical University Dortmund.
Rother is co-author of the Lean Enterprise Institute publication Learning to See, which introduced Value Stream Mapping
Value Stream Mapping
Value stream mapping is a lean manufacturing technique used to analyze and design the flow of materials and information required to bring a product or service to a consumer. At Toyota, where the technique originated, it is known as "material and information flow mapping"...
(VSM). VSM is a tool for visualizing flows of material and information across multiple processes, so that individual process-level improvement efforts fit together as a flowing value stream, match the organization's objectives, and serve the requirements of external customers.
His latest book, Toyota Kata
Toyota Kata
Toyota Kata is a management book by Mike Rother. The book explains the Improvement Kata, which is a means for making creative work teachable.-Overview:...
, is based on research into Toyota's managerial patterns. It examines the company's routines of dialogues and practices - called kata
Kata
is a Japanese word describing detailed choreographed patterns of movements practised either solo or in pairs. The term form is used for the corresponding concept in non-Japanese martial arts in general....
- that are used to make creativity, adaptation and innovation day-to-day experiences.
Publications
- Learning to See (1998), with John Shook
- Training to See (2000), with John Shook
- Creating Continuous Flow (2001), with Rick Harris
- Toyota KataToyota KataToyota Kata is a management book by Mike Rother. The book explains the Improvement Kata, which is a means for making creative work teachable.-Overview:...
(2009)