Chapter 5Hoshin Kanri: PDCA/Strategic Planning/Policy Deployment
Plans are nothing, planning is everything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
In this chapter, we will discuss strategic planning and deploying those plans throughout the organization. We start by framing the environment today and assessing the business system overall in which we will introduce Hoshin concepts. The next part of the chapter deals with the history of Hoshin. Many companies have pieces of Hoshin but few have the entire system or even recognize it as a system. The second half of the chapter discusses the tactical side of Hoshin planning.
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