Layout for Hoshin Kanri Planning in Lean Sales and Marketing

If you have not listened to this podcast with Art Byrne, you should. Podcast: Lean as your Business Model w Art Byrne Transcript: Lean as a Business Model The Lean Turnaround: How Business Leaders Use Lean Principles to Create Value and Transform Their Company Review layout for Hoshin Kanri Planning in implementing Lean in Sales Read More …

A How to Guide for Hoshin Kanri

I highly recommend this book if you want to attempt using a Hoshin Kanri approach without the use of an external consultant. This book is one of the better “how to” guides available, Policy Deployment & Lean Implementation Planning: 10 Step Roadmap to Successful Policy Deployment Using Lean as a System. The book is an Read More …

The Positive & Negative Sides of Hoshin Kanri

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 …

The Uniqueness of Hoshin Kanri

The “Hoshin” is developed at each layer of management clarifying strategies and targets to assist in reaching the preceding layer’s targets. This results in both a macro and micro PDCA. This greatly increases the line of sight and shared responsibility to each other in achieving these goals. Kanri is defined as a method to efficiently Read More …

Tricks from the Trenches on applying Hoshin Kanri

Anthony Manos is a Catalyst with Profero, Inc., where he provides professional consulting services, implementation, coaching and training to a wide variety of organizations, large and small, private and public, in many industries focusing on Lean Enterprise and Lean Healthcare. Mr. Manos has extensive knowledge of Lean and quality in a wide range of work Read More …