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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Craig Kennedy: Why is there such resistance to creating learning organizations?
By Craig Kennedy, Vice President, North American Operations at Merck Manufacturing
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- Last updated: Monday, April 9, 2012
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The question then, unresolved for me as a leader in an industrial American
company is "given all this evidence for learners, improvement, learning
organizations and strong cultures formed through these patterns, why is
there such resistance and such a dearth of it in America? In essence, why
are we letting our future deteriorate without doing anything about it?" 
Sandrine Olivencia