Episode 88 of the Lean Six Sigma for Good podcast is presented by the Sustainable Development Division of IISE.

Our guest is Hugh Alley, an experienced lean practitioner and industrial engineer, who has experience with the Toyota Kata method of improvement. He has recently applied this approach to a nonprofit food bank in Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada, based on the KataLab approach developed in Montreal by Jean-Marc Legentil, Marc-Olivier Legentil and Sylvain Landry.

He shares the following information during our interview:
- His background in Industrial Engineering and how he self-taught when he didn't know how to solve a problem
- The four steps of the Toyota Kata approach
- How to rethink failure as an outcome that wasn't expected
- Why it should be called Toyota Kata, not just Kata
- The confusion about Toyota Kata on how to identify the next experiment
- The format for a 2-day KataLab implementation at a food bank
- How they were able to double the output of food produced at the food bank with half the people and half the space
- How they were able to use KataLab to reduce lab waiting time by 50% without spending money
- The 5 core skills that every supervisor and frontline leader should have

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