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Strategy Deployment at The Lean Enterprise Institute

Strategy Deployment at The Lean Enterprise Institute

By Chet Marchwinski and Jikku Mohan

April 10, 2015

Is your organization “chasing too many rabbits?” It’s a tendency too many companies have of annually setting more strategic objectives than they can possibly implement successfully. This “chase” results in delays, discouragement, and the diversion of resources from activities that should and can be accomplished. How do you deselect “rabbits” and lead your team to effectively deliver on strategy? Jikku Mohan explains.

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Are you “chasing too many rabbits?”

It’s a vivid way of describing the tendency companies have to annually set more strategic objectives than we can possibly implement successfully. The annual “chase” results in delays, discouragement, and the diversion of resources from activities that should — and realistically can — be accomplished. But how do you deselect “rabbits”? And when you’ve targeted the vital few objectives to pursue, how will you plan, manage, and execute them? And how can you do it in a way that aligns and engages everyone in every function with the objectives?

We struggle with these questions, just like you probably do every year. So, I thought I’d talk to Jikku Mohan, LEI’s product and services strategy manager, to share our process of strategy deployment, aka hoshin kanri. Many of you probably use it, too. “The way we use it at the Lean Enterprise Institute, is as a management framework that systematically helps with the formulation of planning and deployment of strategic priorities,” Jikku explains. 

Strategy deployment puts “intense focus” on the capability development of people and processes, while ensuring there is alignment and engagement from workforce, Jikku says. He’ll show you how that works by walking you through the graphic we developed to illustrate the process, including the role of “catchball.” This back-and-forth dialogue between senior managers and project teams builds alignment and engagement by tossing ideas back and forth, like the ball in a game of catch.

You’ll also hear:

  • What is strategy deployment?
  • Why is it important?
  • How does it differ from traditional planning?

Checkout the video, ask a question, or leave a comment about how you use strategy deployment.

If you’re ready for hands-on training in how to improve your strategic planning process, review the two-day workshop in strategy deployment taught by Jikku or LEI COO Mark Reich.

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Chet Marchwinski
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Jikku Mohan

About Chet Marchwinski

Chet has been a humble, unwashed scribe of the lean continuous improvement movement since books by Taiichi Ohno and Shigeo Shingo first hit North America in the 1980s. At LEI, he contributes to content creation, marketing, public relations, and social media. Previously, he also wrote case studies on lean management implementations in…

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About Jikku Mohan

Jikku Mohan primarily engages with companies as a lean coach to support their organizational transformation in the areas of operational excellence, strategy deployment, design of management systems and product development. These companies encompass a variety of industries such as construction, manufacturing, healthcare, consumer electronics and restaurants.  Jikku also teaches workshops…

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