Tying improvement efforts to organizational goals is key to ensuring they have a positive impact on the bottom-line. Linking daily work to organizational goals ensures everyone’s activities drive progress. Hoshin Kanri (also known as policy deployment) is a method for making these connections. The Hoshin Kanri process begins with defining leaderships improvement and growth objectives which are then cascaded down throughout the entire organization using a series of connected X-Matrices.

Workshop:
Guided by a Lean business case and the discipline of policy deployment, participants will learn how to align corporate objectives/initiatives with workplace activities and day-to-day operations. We’ll explore implementation roadmaps and application of the Lean process improvement tool kit.

Facilitated Coaching/Consulting:
To begin, we guide business leaders through a strategy formation process of defining company-wide improvement and growth objectives, initiatives, key performance indicators, and targets-to-improve. Then, using this information as a foundation, we collaborate with functional leaders throughout the company hierarchy to define their individual functional objectives, initiatives, measures, and improvement targets, all the while ensuring that each set of functional; objectives and targets is directly linked-to and aligned-with the business leaders company-wide objectives. From here we can go to functional action plans, team structures, and execution, all guided by an established management system ensuring accountability, capabilities, sustainment.

We also help:

• Facilitate a 3-5-year Strategic Plan and Annual Objective Definition
• Build an Annual Strategic Plan Deployment process
• Facilitate Annual Strategic Plan Deployment sessions
• Implement the Deployment Process
• Design performance score cards
• Create and preform Hoshin Kanri review audits
• Facilitate mid-year company performance reviews

AVAILABLE FORMATS:

• Workshop: classroom learning, case study
• Facilitated Coaching/Consulting: implementation in your environment

Customized Training Programs

Our proven training provides the knowledge and skills needed for a robust and sustainable Lean effort. We can provide training based on a single methodology (i.e. Changeover, Mistake-proofing, Autonomous Maintenance) or combine the methodologies to build a multi-day, multi-module curriculum.

We have provided customized training curricula to organizations throughout the Global 1000 including:  adidas Group, BNP Paribas, Emerson Electric Co., Kaiser Aluminum Corporation, Gannett NJ Media Group, Oldcastle Building Envelope, Suncor Energy, and Whirlpool Corporation. 

We would welcome the opportunity to collaboratively develop a training curriculum that fits your specific needs.