Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise: Developing Competitive Capabilities and Managing Profit

✍ Scribed by Thomas L. Jackson

• Publisher: Productivity Press
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 224
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

At the heart of Lean and Six Sigma is the same, unique business operating system: hoshin kanri. It is a method of strategic planning and a tool for managing complex projects, a quality operating system geared to ensuring that organizations faithfully translate the voice of the customer into new products, and a business operating system that ensures reliable profit growth. The true power of hoshin kanri, however, is two-fold — it is a superior organizational learning method as well as a competitive resource development system. Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise, by Tom Jackson, explains how you can implement, identify and manage the critical relationships among your markets, design characteristics, production systems, and personnel to satisfy your customers and beat your competition.

✦ Table of Contents

Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Resource-Based Approach to Strategy
1 Hoshin Kanri Basics—Nested Experiments, X-Matrix, and Chartering Teams
2 Scan: Checking Market Conditions
3 PLAN: Design a Midterm Strategy
4 PLAN: Design the Annual Hoshin
5 PLAN: Align the Organization Through Catchball
6 DO: Engage the Workforce to Execute the Strategy
7 CHECK: Create a Lean-Thinking Environment
8 CHECK: The President’s Diagnosis
9 ACT: Institutionalizing Hoshin Kanri Through Standardized Work, Kaizen, and Leadership Development
Conclusion
Recommended Reading
Index
About the Author