The Hoshin Kanri Forest : Lean Strategic Organizational Design

Title: The Hoshin Kanri Forest : Lean Strategic Organizational Design
Author: Javier Villalba-Diez
ISBN: 1498785506 / 9781498785501
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 134
Publisher: Productivity Press
Year: 2017
Availability: 2 to 3 weeks

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Strategic Lean Management (LM) efforts significantly fail because leaders often lack a map of their organizations. This book will provide a comprehensive quantifiable framework for strategically designing organizations for LM. Combining knowledge about Strategic Organizational Design and LM, the authors introduce a theory called Hoshin Kanri Forest that considers organizations as networks with organizational structure, functional connectivity, and effective dynamic patterns for attaining an optimal Strategic Organizational Design towards the strategic goal of LM. It presents the future of Lean organizations relying on strategically designing its structure, function, and effective dynamics.

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  • Provides quantifiable metrics to steer Hoshin Kanri towards Lean Strategic Organizational Designs.
  • Includes useful insights into organizational KPI dynamics.
  • Gives leaders an implementation roadmap, the first scientific organizational- and managerial-based method to implement Hoshin Kanri holistically, and a comprehensive framework to implement Lean beyond the organizational boundaries towards customers and suppliers.
  • Offers real examples from the author´s professional experience.

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Preface
Author
Introduction

Chapter 1 : (CPD)nA - Standardization of Lean Business Communication
Chapter 2 : Lean Organizational Design
Chapter 3 : Lean Organizational Dynamics
Chapter 4 : Demystifying Kata
Chapter 5 : Hoshin Kanri Tree
Chapter 6 : Project Management with Hoshin Kanri
Chapter 7 : Hoshin Kanri Forest
Chapter 8 : Management Conclusions : Perspectives on the Hoshin Kanri Forest

Epilogue
References
Index