Joel Stanwood: Where to start with Hoshin Kanri in a not-yet-lean company?
A mid-sized manufacturing company is finalizing its strategic plan and believes that it is time to begin Hoshin Kanri. The company is not currently operating as a Lean Enterprise -- functional silos create significant amount of waste which results in poor product/service quality and high cost to serve. Additionally, different departments and regions of the company are "pulling in different directions." What advice, resources, and lessons learned can you provide to the managers of this company to successfully organize and deploy Hoshin?
Posted on April 27, 2013
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Jacques Chaize: How is Lean to be Maintained in the Long Term?
By Jacques Chaize, President of Danfoss Socla; co-founder of SOL-France; author of Quantum Leap
- Last updated: Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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"We've been working with lean for several years and have had significant results, both financially and in terms of changing behavior. Still Tom Ehrenfeld's earlier question on finding a good balance between pushing people to progress and supporting them in difficult situations remains very relevant. We seem to regularly backslide in our lean efforts, and then have to climb back up again by exerting pressure. The question is: how is lean to be maintained in the long term? Even Toyota seems to be struggling these days, does it ever become part of the culture?"
Sandrine Olivencia