Hoshin Planning

“The Hoshin Plan” is a Lean Tool that, once developed, enables everyone to literally and figuratively be “on the same page” with regard to a Value Stream strategy and implementation plan. The Hoshin Plan is developed by a VS Team, with the VS Leader, who is responsible for the quality of the plan and the integrity of it’s implementation in the VS.

Hoshin Planning is basically a direction-setting and alignment process that results in eveyone in a Value Stream being “on the same page” regarding Vision, Mission, Strategies, Measures, and Activites.   Hoshin Planning results in a Hoshin Plan, which is a living document that provides meaning for all stakeholders in the enterprise:  suppliers, customers, stockholders, employees, and communities.

The Hoshin Plan consists of:

• A VS Vision
• VS Measures of Success
• VS Key Results Areas
• VS Key Results Measures
• VS Key Strategies
• VS Principles of Operation
• VS 90-Day Kaizens

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the profound difference between managing “vertically” (the traditional way most of us have learned and have been trying to use) vs. managing “horizontally” (the VS way to manage).
2. Look at some actual results being achieved by others using Hoshin Plans.
3. Develop a Vision for each of your Value Streams.
4. Using the Vision as a “pull”, develop Key Results Areas, Key Results Measures, and Key Strategies for each of your Value Streams.
5. Create the initial 90-Day Kaizens appropriate for each Key Strategy in your Value Streams.
6. Develop your own Principles of Operation for each of your Value Streams.
7. Package all of the above in a Hoshin Plan document for each of your Value Streams.

Who Should Attend:

• Leadership Team (Operation Managers & Supervisors)
• Staff (Managers, supervisors, engineers, and other individual contributors)
• Value Stream Team members

Duration: 1-2 days (depending on the sophistication of the Value Stream Team creating the Hoshin Plan)

JCM Work Designs/The Lean Sigma Team can design and conduct this workshop to meet your specific needs.  Please contact us for a formal proposal.

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