Week 5 - Understanding Business Context (Part 2)

Your Hoshins (goals) are not the same as my Hoshins?

     At my organization, we use Hoshin Planning to define our Mission, Values, Vision and Annual Goals.

     Lean Productions provides the following description:  Hoshin Kanri (also called Policy Deployment) is a method for ensuring that the strategic goals of a company drive progress and action at every level within that company. This eliminates the waste that comes from inconsistent direction and poor communication.

     In general the Hoshin Planning technique is a sound process, although there is one disadvantage that I am particularly aware of.

     Each department has different goals, which in general is not a problem, but at our organization we often lack the Horizontal Alignment that is depicted on Figure 1 - Hoshin Planning Diagram provided by Zeeshan Syed.  What this means is that each department has no real incentive to assist any other department with their goals and without the Horizontal Alignment, it does not foster a supportive culture within the organization.

          Figure 1 - Hoshin Planning Diagram          

References:

Hoshin Kanri. (n.d.). Retrieved September 26, 2016, from http://www.leanproduction.com/hoshin-kanri.html 

Syed, Z. (2016, March 30). How to 'Think' like Toyota - Apply 'Hoshin Kanri' .. Retrieved September 25, 2016, from https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-think-like-toyota-hoshin-zeeshan-syed-ذیشان-سید-