Hoshin Planning

Hoshin is a strategic planning process with built-in review, improvement, and learning activities. Hoshin planning—sometimes referred to as hoshin kanri or policy deployment—aligns an organization around the same few high-impact objectives, encourages learning and growth, and standardizes reporting. This course walks you through the seven steps of hoshin planning, from laying your foundation to solving problems to encouraging reflection and organizational learning. Discover how to create a vision and mission and then build a hoshin plan of long-term, breakthrough, and annual objectives. Learn about catchball and find out how to monitor the progress of hoshin initiatives. Using this guide, you will be able to leverage all the benefits of hoshin planning to better understand and grow from your daily work.
Topics include:
- Explain the purpose of hoshin kanri.
- Construct how the vision, mission, value, and metrics are integrated.
- Determine which tools are used when developing breakthrough objectives.
- Describe best practices to use with the A3 document.
- Summarize the steps taken in the hoshin planning process.