{"id":3191,"date":"2020-01-26T13:43:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T18:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2020-08-27T10:19:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T14:19:54","slug":"understanding-a3-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/2020\/01\/26\/understanding-a3-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding A3 Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/2614576-understanding-a3-thinking\">Understanding A3 Thinking: A Critical Component of Toyota\u2019s PDCA Management System<\/a> is a book by Durward Sobek and Art Smalley enabling you to understand A3 thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The A3 report is a key tool used by Toyota in support of problem resolution. The approach enable them to solve the root causes of the problem and not only to find paliative temporary fixes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more and before reading the book, I invite you to watch the excellent presentation by Claudio Perrone (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/agilesensei\" target=\"_blank\">@agilesensei<\/a>).<strong> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/fr.slideshare.net\/cperrone\/a3-kaizen-heres-how\" target=\"_blank\">A3 &amp; Kaizen: Here\u2019s How<\/a> <\/strong> from <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/fr.slideshare.net\/cperrone\" target=\"_blank\">Claudio Perrone<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This post is a translation of my original French post from 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding A3 Thinking: A Critical Component of Toyota\u2019s PDCA Management System is a book by Durward Sobek and Art Smalley enabling you to understand A3 thinking. The A3 report is a key tool used by Toyota in support of problem resolution. The approach enable them to solve the root causes of the problem and not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/2614576.jpg?fit=241%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNjQG-Pt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1481,"url":"https:\/\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/2012\/11\/03\/comprendre-le-a3\/","url_meta":{"origin":3191,"position":0},"title":"Comprendre le A3","author":"Alexis","date":"November 3, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Understanding A3 Thinking: A Critical Component of Toyota's PDCA Management System\u00a0est un livre de Durward Sobek et Art Smalley permettant de comprendre la pens\u00e9e A3. 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