Template · Org, people & execution
Hoshin Kanri template
For turning a few breakthrough objectives into aligned targets at every level, negotiated up and down rather than handed down. Leave it alone when the direction is undecided; this deploys a strategy, it does not produce one. Instead Playing to Win, to decide the direction; hoshin only deploys one you already have.
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Originator: Japanese TQC practice of the 1960s; codified by Yoji Akao. The framework itself is not ours to license, and the written entry behind this page, its worked example, critiques and sources, stays all rights reserved. The full licence position is set out in plain English.
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A blank template is the easy part. The entry behind it covers how to run Hoshin Kanri properly, a worked example, the pitfalls real teams hit, and the situations where it is the wrong tool and something else would serve better.