What is Policy Deployment and How To Reach True North
December 29, 2021Policy deployment, known in Lean circles as Hoshin Kanri or Strategy Deployment, is a technique for ensuring that an organization's...
How to Navigate the Hoshin Kanri Planning Process
June 20, 2019One of the most important and challenging responsibilities of leaders is setting the strategic direction of the organization and steering...
Synchronize Strategy, Tactics, and Operations with Hoshin Kanri
April 24, 2019Hoshin Kanri is a strategic planning approach that is often used to improve organizations. Although it is not as commonly used as some...
How Hoshin Planning Aligns with PDSA
April 19, 2019We get a lot of questions from leaders about which continuous improvement tools and techniques they should use. Is DMAIC better than PDSA?...
Why Some Hoshin Kanri Implementations Go Wrong
April 11, 2019Hoshin Kanri is a strategy deployment approach that is popular with organizations using the Lean or Six Sigma business methodology and...
Common Questions About the Hoshin Kanri X-Matrix
January 23, 2019Strategy deployment is arguably the most crucial responsibility of business executives. Setting the direction for the organization and...
Hoshin Planning 101
January 23, 2019Maneuvering an organization toward its long-term strategic goals while managing day-to-day improvements and curtailing business processes...
What Should You Include in Your Hoshin Kanri Training Materials?
January 4, 2019If you’ve been tasked with introducing the Hoshin Kanri strategy deployment methodology to your organization, and you are like many of our...
4 Essential Hoshin Planning Tools
December 5, 2018Hoshin Kanri is a Lean technique for strategic planning. The goal is to get everyone rowing in the same direction, at the same time, to...