Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise by Thomas L Jackson

Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise by Thomas L Jackson

Winner of a Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award! At the heart of Lean and Six Sigma is the same, unique business operating system: hoshin kanri. It is a method of strategic planning and a tool for managing complex projects, a quality operating system geared to ensuring that organizations faithfully translate the voice of the customer into new products, and a business operating system that ensures reliable profit growth. The true power of hoshin kanri, however, is two-fold -- it is a superior organizational learning method as well as a competitive resource development system. Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise, by Tom Jackson, explains how you can implement, identify and manage the critical relationships among your markets, design characteristics, production systems, and personnel to satisfy your customers and beat your competition. This practical workbook provides— A new understanding of hoshin kanri as a grand experimental design implemented through a system of team agreements. Clear explanations of the steps of hoshin kanri. A measure of overall business effectiveness used to determine the focus of corporate strategy. A new, improved X-matrix that incorporates a lean "balanced scorecard" for identifying improvement opportunities and converting them readily into bottom line results as a value stream P&L in terms that financial managers and accountants can understand and support. Downloadable resources containing forms, meeting agendas, and examples of X-matrices that serve marketing and design engineering as well as manufacturing. This workbook will show you the mechanics of implementing hoshin kanri, so that you can systematically improve your brand equity, implement Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma, and integrate your suppliers into a Lean and Six Sigma organization.

"Transforming a company into a truly lean enterprise is both a very noble goal and daunting taskCreating Lean Culture only happens through changing the behaviors on an on-going basis. Hoshin kanri provides not only the overall strategy for completing the transformation, but importantly to those who have not operated in a lean environment, it provides the step-by-step tactics and tools to be used to accomplish the lean journey. I encourage the readers to determine how best to apply the concepts and tactics to their company and in doing so improve both their profits and also their long term competitive advantages."
--Richard Christman, CEO, The GSI Group, Inc.-Headquarters, July 2006

"Tom Jackson's practical and valuable insights are rivaled only by the importance and benefits of applying Hoshin Kanri."
Jamie Flinchbaugh, Co-Author, The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean July 2006

Rona Consulting Group & Productivity Press

Thomas L. Jackson, Editor

Thomas L. Jackson, JD, MBA, PhD, is the former CEO of Productivity, Inc., and Productivity Press, and a member of the influential Ford Lean Advisory Group. Tom has been a student of lean enterprise since 1988, when he copyedited Hiroyuki Hirano's JIT Factory Revolution for Productivity Press and reworked two chapters of Yasuhiro Monden's groundbreaking Japanese Management Accounting. Looking at pictures of Japanese factories and reading about how differently the Japanese count their money, Tom became so fanatical about lean that he left his comfortable position as a professor of business at the University of Vermont to start his own lean consulting company--in Malaysia! There, he learned that the powerful techniques of lean enterprise-- JIT, SMED, TPM, and kanban--were only half of the story of Toyota's great success. The other half of the story was hoshin kanri (a.k.a. the balanced scorecard) and a revolution in the structure of modern business organization.

In 2005, Tom started applying Toyota's operational and management methods in healthcare in a small rural clinic in Seward, Alaska. In 2008, Tom decided to trade his Levi's Dockers for a pair of black scrubs and joined Mike Rona, former president of Seattle's Virginia Mason Medical Center, as a partner in the Rona Consulting Group, where he and Mike are transforming healthcare and pursuing perfection. In 2007, Tom was awarded a Shingo Prize for his book, Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise. In 2009, Tom was appointed Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Health Services of the University of Washington's School of Public Health.

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ISBN 13	9781563273421
ISBN 10	156327342X
Title	Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise
Author	Thomas L Jackson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Inc
Year published	2006-08-21
Number of pages	224
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