Chapter 5Planning: Establishing a Target Condition
Once you have experienced the role a target condition plays in Toyota’s improvement kata, you will find it difficult to work without one. You will also discover how difficult it is to explain what a target condition is and its importance to any manager, engineer, or executive who has not experienced it for themselves. That is a Catch–22 we will deal with in Chapter 9. Over the course of this chapter the target condition idea should become clearer to you, but in the end there is no substitute for learning by doing.
Having a target condition is so important for effective process improvement and management that Toyota will usually not start trying to improve or move forward before a target condition ...
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