Works
- Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Add Value and Eliminate Muda (with John Shook), Lean Enterprise Institute, 1999
- Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results, McGraw-Hill, 2009
In Thinking Tools
Known for
A researcher of the Toyota production system who introduced value stream mapping to Western industry with John Shook and later described the improvement kata and coaching kata, daily routines for practicing scientific thinking toward a target condition.