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Aligning Goals and Actions: Insights into Hoshin Kanri

Executive Leadership

Aligning Goals and Actions: Insights into Hoshin Kanri

By Josh Howell, James (Jim) Womack, PhD, Charlie Murphy, SVP, Turner Construction and Mark Reich

December 18, 2024

Download The Management Brief,  featuring practical insights and case studies on using hoshin kanri to align an organization around a strategy.

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It’s one thing to devise a strategy. It’s another thing entirely to realize it. 

Download the latest issue of The Management Brief, which features practical insights and case studies on using hoshin kanri to align an organization around a strategy for effective implementation. 

This issue’s contributors include:

  • Mark Reich (Senior Coach, Lean Enterprise Institute) answers common questions about starting and sustaining hoshin kanri in any organization with an excerpt from his upcoming book Managing on Purpose.
  • Josh Howell (President, Lean Enterprise Institute) and Charlie Murphy (Senior Vice President, Turner Construction) discuss Turner Construction’s lean transformation and dramatic safety improvements achieved through hoshin kanri and daily management.
  • Jim Womack (Senior Advisor, Lean Enterprise Institute) explains how robust hoshin planning at Toyota has guided them through chaotic upheaval in the automotive industry.

Download the PDF for free.

Aligning Goals and Actions: Insights into Hoshin Kanri
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James (Jim) Womack, PhD
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Mark Reich

About Mark Reich

Mark Reich spent 23 years working for Toyota, starting in 1988 with six years in Japan in the Overseas Planning Division, where he was responsible for Product Planning and worked with Chief Engineers to define vehicle specifications for overseas markets. This was at a critical time when Toyota was introducing…

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About Josh Howell

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…

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About James (Jim) Womack, PhD

Widely considered the father of the lean movement, Womack has been talking and publishing about creating value through continuous innovation around deep customer understanding for many years. In the late eighties, he and Dan Jones led MIT’s International Motor Vehicle Research Program (IMVP), which introduced the term “lean” to describe…

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