IMPROVEMENT UNDERSTAND THE

KATA Wheres the Threshold

of Knowledge?
DIRECTION
What challenge are
PLANNING you striving for?
Where do you want to go? (6 mo - 3 years out)

GRASP THE
CURRENT CONDITION
What are the facts
1 Tool:
Future-State Mapping

and data about

where you are now? ESTABLISH THE NEXT
TARGET CONDITION
(with an achieve-by date)

2 Tool:
IK Process Analysis
Describe where you
want to be next on the
way to the challenge.
(1 week - 3 months out)

EXECUTING
Then iterate to get there
3 Tool: Current Condition
Target Condition Form

ITERATE TOWARD THE COACHING CYCLES

TARGET CONDITION WITH THE 5 QUESTIONS
Conduct rapid, frequent Coach escorts the
experiments to move Learner and gives
from current condition Daily
procedural guidance.
to the target condition.

4 Tool:
PDCA Cycles Record
By Mike Rother, 2013
5 Tool:
5-Question Card