Flyers JR + IK/CK = Results Through Improving People By: TWI Institute Team Kata is quickly gaining momentum and recognition as a missing link in the sustainability of Lean business strategies and continuous improvement initiatives. View Flyer
Flyers Toyota Kata Programs - A Complete System for Putting Kata into Practice By: TWI Institute Team The TWI Institute's Kata and TWI programs work together to help you establish and sustain the practice of Kata and a culture of continuous improvement and problem solving. View Flyer
Article/Whitepaper The Secrets of Isao Kato, Toyota’s Master Trainer By: TWI Institute Team Gain intimate knowledge and insight into how Standardized Work can yield dramatic results through a people-focused program heretofore taught only in Japan. View Content
Flyers Fear of Virus Article By: TWI Institute Team Leaders in healthcare and government face many challenges, not the least of which is risk on the frontlines not only for doctors and nurses, but also for caregivers returning to work from retirement or volunteers with little or no experience. View Flyer
Flyers Post-COVID Advisory By: TWI Institute Team Skills, safety and stability are especially significant in planning for post-COVID-19 recovery. View Flyer
Flyers TWIST By: TWI Institute Team Organizations – especially in these times – often become stretched, not only by distance but also in time and resources. View Flyer
Recommended Reading Creating an Effective Management System: Integrating Policy Deployment, TWI, and Kata By: TWI Institute Team Based on their extensive experience with organizational development and hands-on leadership in policy deployment, TWI and Kata, the authors describe their own journey in helping organizations discover and develop systems that function like well-designed and smooth-running machines while capturing the humanistic aspects of the foundational skills that emphasize the inherent synergy of the system. Buy Book
Recommended Reading Implementing TWI: Creating and Managing a Skills-Based Culture By: TWI Institute Team This unique book describes the experiences of a multitude of companies both large and small in various industries using TWI today, more than 60 years after the creation of these powerful programs Buy Book
Recommended Reading The TWI Workbook: Essential Skills for Supervisors By: TWI Institute Team Written in a practical, easy-to-understand style, this book is directed at first-line supervisors with a strong focus on learning how to put the TWI methods into use. Buy Book
Recommended Reading Getting to Standard Work in Healthcare: Using TWI to Create a Foundation for Quality Care By: TWI Institute Team This book describes how to incorporate the most widely used Training Within Industry (TWI) module, Job Instruction (JI), to facilitate performance excellence and boost employee morale in a healthcare organization. Buy Book
Recommended Reading Building a Global Learning Organization: Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO® Group By: TWI Institute Team How a multinational company developed a global structure for learning based on the TWI (Training Within Industry) program to create and sustain standardized work across multiple language and cultural platforms. Buy Book
Recommended Reading Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success By: TWI Institute Team The author organizes the management philosophies, theories and tools that have been developed and used over the years in Japan under the single concept of Kaizen. Buy Book