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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Jerry Weinberg: Is anything other than value-added-for-customers considered to be waste?
By Jerry Weinberg, Author of the "Quality Software Management" series and "The Pshychology of Computer Programming"
- Last updated: Monday, November 22, 2010
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According to Wikipedia, ""Lean," is a production practice that considers
the expenditure of resources for any goal other than the creation of
value for the end customer to be wasteful, and thus a target for elimination."
First, do you agree with this characterization (and, if you don't, why
not)? 
Sandrine Olivencia