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Obeya in Action: The Process and Benefits of Obeya

November 4, 2017

If 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, 2018

I 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, 2018

Hoshin 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, 2018

Speculative fiction and horror writer, Ray Bradbury, was one of the most celebrated 20th and 21 st century American writers. He is...

The Four Phases of Strategy Deployment – Part II

January 24, 2017

This 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, 2018

Achieving 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, 2016

Hoshin 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, 2016

We’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, 2023

I doubt he meant to be giving business tips when Louis Carol wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865, but this exchange between...