Webinar: Connecting Strategy and Problem Solving
How Hoshin Kanri (Strategy Deployment ) and A3 Problem-Solving Work Together to Drive Results.
Dates
June 18, 2025: 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET
Location
Webinar
Why you should attend
If you're ready to move beyond disconnected improvement projects and build real momentum, this webinar is for you. You'll learn how to create stronger alignment across your organization, develop internal capability, and connect strategy with day-to-day learning. Whether you're an executive, functional leader, CI professional, or manager, you'll leave equipped to lead with greater clarity and impact.
Many organizations struggle to develop a strategy for innovation that’s also grounded in reality (gemba). And they struggle with execution. Hoshin Kanri (strategy deployment) provides the structure to align the organization around a few breakthrough objectives. The A3 Process informs those objectives while also ensuring they come to life through focused, disciplined problem-solving. In this live webinar, you’ll learn how Hoshin Kanri (strategy deployment) and A3 Problem-Solving processes are interlocking parts of a Lean Management System that clarifies direction, builds alignment, and fosters innovation both top-down and bottom-up across your organization.
What You’ll Learn:
- How Hoshin Kanri sets the direction for the organization—and how A3s both inform strategy and support execution at every level
- The difference between a “strategy on paper” and a living management system
- Real examples of how teams use A3s to solve strategic problems
- How the two practices build capability for innovation up and down, and across the organization
- Why connecting strategy and problem-solving is essential to lean transformation and sustainable success.
Who Should Attend: This session is for executives, functional leaders, continuous improvement professionals, and managers who want to:
- Move beyond disconnected improvement projects
- Develop a more aligned and capable organization
- Build a system where strategy and learning go hand in hand
Please note, this webinar will not be available on-demand.

Josh Howell
President and Executive Team Leader
Lean Enterprise Institute
Joshua Howell is president and executive team leader at the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI). For over a decade, he has supported individuals and organizations with lean transformations for improved business performance. As a coach, he helps people become lean thinkers and practitioners through experiential learning, believing such an approach can lead to enterprise-wide improvement. Regular e-letters […]
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