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A3 Thinking is a process of team-based problem solving, generally geared towards a challenging problem that has eluded a solution by small team running the process.
In effect, A3 Thinking, and the associated A3 report are pulled out when lesser tools fail.
A3 Thinking combines many of the hallmarks of good Lean management with a variety of tools. It uses the PDCA cycle as its foundation, but with a far more analytical approach than typically used with PDCA. The analysis of these problems rely on many of problem solving tools associated with Lean (5 Whys, cause and effect diagram, Pareto charts, run charts), and the solutions for these problems often make use of improvement tools from the Lean toolkit (kanban, Standard Work, 5S).
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