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How the A3 Process Developed to Help Build Better Managers, Part Two

In this second of two articles, Isao Yoshino and John Shook explore how A3 emerged as powerful practice at Toyota for developing better managers.

by John Shook

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Why You Should Link Your Hoshin Kanri and A3 Management Processes

An organization that integrates a robust long-term-oriented strategy deployment process with a daily management process achieves greater performance gains than an organization with only one…

by Doug Cooper, Mark Reich and John Shook

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Our hoshin plan failed. What do we do now?

Dear Gemba Coach: How do we deal with hoshin kanri when things don’t work out as planned?

by Michael Ballé

Article

What Strategy Is and What It's Not

"In my career, I was always more interested in what it would take to create and sustain competitive advantage than just doing good things," writes…

by Dave LaHote

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Hoshin Kanri

Hoshin Kanri (aka “policy deployment”) is a strategic framework for building sustained high performance and producing results through structured plan-do-check-act (PDCA) thinking. More specifically, it…

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The Post-COVID-19 Reboot: Safe, Smart Steps for Restarting Production

GE Appliances and Herman Miller share lessons learned on opening manufacturing operations during the Covid-19 crisis. They share how their companies with deep lean experience have responded…

by Scott Bacon, Rich Calvaruso , Steve Michalak and Chris Shier

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How Hoshin Kanri Aligns Your Key Organizational Systems

To build the culture and develop the complementary systems that connect your company's strategic and operational plans, consider how they must work together, like the…

by Mark Reich

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Leveraging Strategy Deployment to Effectively Respond to the Unexpected

How Hoshin Kanri Builds Organizational Resilience.

by Laura Mottola, Edgar Pape and Mark Reich

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3 Lessons Maersk Learned from Adopting Hoshin Kanri

Deploying hoshin kanri at Maersk was challenging, recounts Agne Nainyte, who shares the details of this work that helped the organization shift from firefighting to…

by Agne Nainyte

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The Escalator of Issues

A daily management system with daily performance metrics gives caregivers the sense that managers are really paying attention, that problems really are being addressed, and…

by James (Jim) Womack, PhD

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Why Hoshin Kanri is a Better Approach to Planning and Execution

Effective hoshin kanri builds on traditional strategy deployment by including key questions that conventional models fail to include, argues Pascal Dennis in a second article…

by Pascal Dennis

Book

Getting the Right Things Done

For companies to be competitive, leaders must engage people at all levels in order to focus their energy and enable them to apply lean principles…

by Pascal Dennis

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Defining LEI’s Customer: Understanding Your Real Problems & Needs

"Our customer is part of everything we do, but defining them and their needs… well, it’s like describing the air you breathe," writes Josh Rapoza.…

by Joshua Rapoza

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Make Broccoli (Or Lean) Taste Better Through Experiments

"Whether it’s eating healthy, saving for retirement, or pursuing Lean, we are all biased towards maximizing the here and now as opposed to working towards…

by Brent Wahba

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It Starts Within: The Lean Journey of CI&T

The lean transformation of Brazilian tech company CI&T was unique in that it began with an implementation of hoshin kanri. In this interview from the…

by Cesar Gon and Bruno Guicardi

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A Body Needs Skeleton and Muscle to Work

How do you create alignment across the organization when you have separate departments, value streams, and executives with conflicting priorities? Hoshin kanri. Mark Reich explains.

by Mark Reich

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Do You Practice Routine Personal Development?

Once we learn lean we often start seeing it everywhere, even in places we might least expect it. In this instance, Katie Anderson saw a…

by Katie Anderson

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How effective is a book club?

Dear Gemba Coach: How effective is a book club? Should we invest in book clubs?

by Michael Ballé

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Flaatnes Elektro-Mek Reveals How Double Loop Learning Supports Lean Thinking and Practice

Every experience is a learning experience. However, we tend to only experience single-loop learning where we reaffirm what we already think is true. Lean gives…

by Daryl Powell and Eivind Reke