Obeya in Action: The Process and Benefits of Obeya
November 4, 2017If you’ve never heard of an “obeya,” you’ll want to check out our VP of Improvement & Innovation Mark Graban interviewing Dr. Michael...
The 5 Principles of Hoshin Kanri
June 13, 2018I like to think about Hoshin Kanri, also known as strategy deployment, as the ability of an organization to walk and chew gum at the same...
How Improvement Software Makes Hoshin Kanri More Effective
March 8, 2018Hoshin Kanri is a Lean management technique for getting strategy, tactics, and improvement efforts in sync across the entire organization....
How Implementing Hoshin Kanri Can Help You Predict the Future
April 18, 2018Speculative fiction and horror writer, Ray Bradbury, was one of the most celebrated 20th and
The Four Phases of Strategy Deployment – Part II
January 24, 2017This is the second in our two-part post on the four phases of strategy deployment. In part one, we focused on what it takes to craft the...
5 Signs You Should Consider Strategy Deployment Software
June 13, 2018Achieving strategic objectives is the most important, and often the most difficult, responsibility of any organization. It is all too easy...
What KaiNexus Brings to Hoshin Kanri that You Just Live Without
December 3, 2016Hoshin Kanri, translated as “strategy deployment” or “management compass,” is a Lean methodology for aligning strategy, measures, and...
The Role of Catchball in Strategic Planning
September 20, 2016We’ve written before about how the Lean technique of Catchball is a valuable improvement tool. The process of passing ideas back and forth...
A Lesson in Strategy Deployment from a 19th Century Cat
October 11, 2023I doubt he meant to be giving business tips when Louis Carol wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865, but this exchange between...