Anthony Mano, a Catalyst with Profero, Inc. was interviewed in the Business901 podcast, Tricks from the Trenches on applying Hoshin Kanri. This is a transcription of the podcast. Anthony Manos through Profero, Inc.provides professional consulting services, implementation, coaching and training to a wide variety of organizations, large and small, private and public, in many industries Read More …
Recently, I have been challenging the traditional hierarchy of organizations. I have found it limiting when trying to develop new collaborative structures internally and externally. I discussed this in a recent blog post, The Uniqueness of Hoshin Kanri. Dan Pink provides a nice example on an empirical basis. (Video is an excerpt from Daniel Pink’s Read More …
Hoshin Kanri is a management system that creates a method of policy deployment in the form of both organizational and employees goals. It is a step by step implementation and review process from a systems approach perspective for change. In the simplest form, top management sets a vision and bottom line employee sets the tactics. Read More …
There are several purposes to the Balance Scorecard. One of the most important is to create measures that are forward looking and proactive. This way the Balanced Scorecard can be an effective agent of organizational change. However, we can never start any forward thinking without a vision. I use to think that Vision and Mission Read More …
Balanced Scorecards tell you the knowledge, skills and systems that your employees will need (learning and growth) to innovate and build the right strategic capabilities and efficiencies (internal processes) that deliver specific value to the market (customer) which will eventually lead to higher shareholder value (financial). – “Having Trouble with Your Strategy? Then Map It” Read More …
This week we are reviewing different pricing strategies culminating with our podcast, The Death of List Price featuring Rob Doctors, lead author of the book, Contextual Pricing: The Death of List Price and the New Market Reality. How Lucky do you feel with your pricing? As lucky as this 19 year-old did on the Price Read More …