From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hoshin Kanri
Hoshin Kanri
Hoshin kanri - is a method devised to capture and cement
strategic goals as well as flashes of insight about the fu-
See also
ture and develop the means to bring these into reali- • Quality function deployment
ty."[1] Also called Policy Deployment or Hoshin Planning
Planning, • Strategic planning
it is a Strategic planning/Strategic management method- • Strategic management
ology, based on a concept popularized in Japan by Pro- • Business Process Improvement
fessor Kaoru Ishikawa in the late 1950s when he said that • Process Improvement
’each person is the expert in his or her own job and Ja- • Yoji Akao
panese TQC (Total Quality Control) is designed to use the • Total Quality Management
collective thinking power of all employees to make their
organization the best in its field. This is the fundamen-
tal principle of Hoshin Kanri and in Professor Ishikawa’s
Notes
words in his book ’What is Total Quality Control’ "Top [1] Akao, Yoji, ed (Jap: 1988, Eng: 1991) (in English(tr.
managers and middle managers must be bold enough to from Japanese)). Hoshin Kanri, policy deployment for
delegate as much authority as possible. That is the way to successful TQM. New York: Productivity Press
establish respect for humanity as your management phi- (Originally Japanese Standards Association).
losophy. It is a management system in which all employ- pp. xiii. ISBN 1-563273-11-X.
ees participate, from the top down and from the bottom http://books.google.com/books?id=hmAsDAVO-
up, and humanity is fully respected." Adaptations of the IEC&printsec=frontcover.
concept have since been developed by many including [2] Akao, Yoji, ed (Jap: 1988, Eng: 1991) (in English(tr.
Dr. Yoji Akao, that use a Shewhart cycle (Plan-Do-Check- from Japanese)). Hoshin Kanri, policy deployment for
Act) to create goals, choose control points (measurable successful TQM. New York: Productivity Press
milestones), and link daily control activities to company (Originally Japanese Standards Association).
strategy.[2] pp. xiv. ISBN 1-563273-11-X.
The discipline of hoshin kanri is intended to help an http://books.google.com/books?id=hmAsDAVO-
organization: IEC&printsec=frontcover.
• Focus on a shared goal [3] Akao, Yoji, ed (Jap: 1988, Eng: 1991) (in English(tr.
• Communicate that goal to all leaders from Japanese)). Hoshin Kanri, policy deployment for
• Involve all leaders in planning to achieve the goal successful TQM. New York: Productivity Press
• Hold participants accountable for achieving their (Originally Japanese Standards Association).
part of the plan pp. xiv. ISBN 1-563273-11-X.
It assumes daily controls and performance measures are http://books.google.com/books?id=hmAsDAVO-
in place. "With hoshin kanri... the daily crush of events IEC&printsec=frontcover.
and quarterly bottom-line pressures do not take prece- [4] Akao, Yoji, ed (Jap: 1988, Eng: 1991) (in English(tr.
dence over strategic plans, rather, these short-term ac- from Japanese)). Hoshin Kanri, policy deployment for
tivities are determined and managed by the plans them- successful TQM. New York: Productivity Press
selves."[3] (Originally Japanese Standards Association).
In Japanese, hoshin means shining metal, compass, or pp. xiii. ISBN 1-563273-11-X.
pointing the direction, kanri means management or con- http://books.google.com/books?id=hmAsDAVO-
trol.[4] The name suggests how hoshin planning aligns an IEC&printsec=frontcover.
organization toward accomplishing a single goal.
Key proponents/practitioners of hoshin kanri in-
clude:
Further reading
• Toyota • Industry Week (October 2007): Strategic Deployment:
• Bank of America How To Think Like Toyota
• Bridgestone Tire • Manufacturing Engineering (Mar 2006) Strategy
• GOAL/QPC Deployment: Linking Lean to Business Strategy
• Hewlett Packard • Quality Digest (May 1997): Strategic Planning With
the Hoshin Process
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hoshin Kanri
• Hoshin Kanri - The Strategic Approach to
Continuous Improvement by David Hutchins, Gower
External links
publishing, 2008 • Site/Definition: Hoshin Planning Process - a short
• Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise: Developing step-wise how-to of Hoshin Kanri that includes a
Competitive Capabilities and Managing Profit by number of good best-practice suggestions/
Thomas L. Jackson, Productivity Press, 2006 assumptions.
• Getting The Right Things Done by Pascal Dennis, • Site/Definition: What is Hoshin Kanri?
Lean Enterprise Institute, 2008 • Site/Definition: Hoshin Kanri - Policy Deployment
• Software: i-nexus
• Software: PlanBase Hoshin
• Software: TQE Hoshin Kanri
• Software: Business Optix
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