Chapter 2 Hoshin Kanri
What is Hoshin Kanri?
With the first bit of housekeeping out of the way, we now turn to the first step in the Lean Innovation Cycle – Hoshin Kanri. Hoshin Kanri is a Japanese term that literally translates as “Direction” and “Management” [1]. Another way to think of it is that the Hoshin is the strategy a business pursues and the Kanri is the support of that strategy. At its heart, Hoshin Kanri is a structured and systematic way of providing direction to the rest of the organization. It is a management mechanism that ensures that everybody in the organization, regardless of their place in the enterprise hierarchy, is aligned to the same strategic goals. When Hoshin Kanri is properly implemented, ...
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