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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Ed Schein: Toyota’s Safety Culture
By Edgar Schein, Author of Organizational Culture, and Leadership and The Corporate
Culture Survival Guide
- Last updated: Monday, March 15, 2010
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I would be most interested to get reactions to the question: "What happened to Toyota? Did they abandon safety or was safety never part of their culture?" 
Sandrine Olivencia