Hoshin Kanri: a tool for strategic policy deployment

✍ Scribed by Charles Tennant; Paul Roberts

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 171 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1092-4604
• DOI: 10.1002/kpm.121

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Methodologies for strategic management encompassing various techniques and models tend to set trends and become paradigms, as they are published and presented to the business community. This paper compares management by objectives (MbO) and business process reengineering (BPR) with the technique of Hoshin Kanri, which has been described as one ofthe core aspects of Japan's management system. Planning and deployment are critical elements of Hoshin Kanri, which imply that the process of developing targets, the assessment of the means to achieve the targets and the deployment of both are fundamental to successful implementation. The authors have adapted the Hoshin Kanri technique, for application at a major UK engineering company as a tool for strategic policy deployment. The benefits werefound to include; integration of strategic objectives with tactical daily management, theapplication of the plan–do–check–act circle to business process management, parallel planning and execution methodology, companywide approach and improvements in communication. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.