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How do you bridge the sometimes overwhelming gap between your corporate goals and the deployment of those goals?
Hoshin Kanri, the Japanese term for policy deployment, is an approach to strategic planning and quality improvement that has become a pillar of quality management for a growing number of US companies. This policy deployment strategy has become a critical tool for bridging that gap between corporate goals and their successful companywide deployment.
Hoshin Kanri offers top and middle managers a guide for customizing a policy deployment strategy specially suited for their company. This book is a compilation of examples from sucessful policy deployment that demonstrate how company vision is converted into individual resposibility, and how corporate ideals becoming living reality. Charts, diagrams, and case studies lead you through planning, implementation, and the review process for managed change. With Hoshin Kanri there is a continual process of checking to make sure what is done reflects the intentions, targets, and vision the company has agreed to pursue.
