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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Mike Bosworth: Lean Success Stories
By Mike Bosworth, Author of 'Solution Selling' and 'Customer Centric Selling'
- Last updated: Sunday, July 11, 2010
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“For someone involved with sales and marketing, like myself, lean is intriguing but not defined enough for a lay person without hearing more success stories. What would be your best success stories to illustrate what lean is all about?” 
Sandrine Olivencia