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Integrated Management Systems A Simple Overview...

Many companies receiving either the Deming or Japan Quality Awards
have implemented both ERP and Hoshin Kanri. ERP, Enterprise
Resource Planning is the best strategy for integrating company-wide
management processes. Hoshin Kanri—often called Policy Deployment
and several other names—is a medium and long-range business
implementation strategy that directly integrates with a company’s
business philosophy and vision —one that includes, at minimum, the
definition and implementation of annual targets and measures.
Hoshin Kanri - Initial Requirements For Changing To This Business
System Are As Follows:

 Measuring the business system as a whole

 Setting core objectives of the business
 Understanding the environmental situation
in which the business operates
 Defining processes that make up the
system, and their activities, goals, & metrics
 Providing resources to perform activities to
achieve business objectives.

ERP - There are five major elements required for correctly defining a
closed-loop planning & scheduling system:
 1. An integrated business operating process
that links strategic plans and business plans to
sales plans and operations plans.
2. A people-driven process that is supported
by a computer system.
3. A formal resource planning process that
involves all functions within a company.
4. Defined responsibilities and performance
measurements for all functions in a company.
5. Communications among all functions in a
company as well as communications among
all divisions and sister companies.

Hoshin is an integrated management philosophy and so is Enterprise

Resource Planning. ERP is better known.
Hoshin Kanri is the newest addition. It was developed in Japan but it is
based on the US techniques of Management by Objectives and the
classical Plan-Do-Check-Act improvement cycle. Hoshin Kanri is used to
communicate company policy to everyone in the organization. Its
primary benefit is to focus activity on the key things necessary for
success. Japanese Deming Prize winners credit Hoshin as being a key
contributor to their business success. Progressive US companies, like
Hewlett-Packard and Xerox, have also adopted Hoshin as their strategic
planning process. Almost all Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
winners use some form of "Hoshin like" planning process.
In its simplest form, Hoshin Kanri is nothing more than a system of
forms, targets and rules that encourage employees to analyze
situations, create plans for improvement, conduct performance checks,
and take appropriate action. In practical application, however, is much
more.
HOSHIN PLANNING CLASSES:
Breakthrough Improvement From Vision-Driven Leadership
 WHAT IS HOSHIN PLANNING?: 2-
An Overview of The Hoshin   DAYS 
Planning System

 HOSHIN INVOLVEMENT, 2-
EMPOWERMENT, & DAYS 
IMPROVEMENT:
 
Leveraging the Creative Talent of
Your Workforce Thru Hoshin
Planning

 IMPLEMENTATION: 3-
RESEARCHING YOUR BEST DAYS
OPTIONS
 
Developing Deployment
Strategies For Training & System
Development

Hoshin Text References:

Hoshin Handbook, Second Edition
by Pete Babich, Total Quality Engineering Inc., 1992-1996.
ISBN: 0965186105
Beyond Strategic Vision : Effective Corporate Action With Hoshin
Planning
by Michael Cowley & Ellen Domb, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997.
ISBN: 0750698438
The Management Compass. Steering the Corporation Using Hoshin
Planning
by Michele L. Bechtell, American Management Association, New York
NY, 1995.
ISBN: 0814423582
Breakthrough Leadership
by Mara Minerva Melum and Casey Collett, American Hospital
Publishing, 1995.
ISBN: 1556481330
Hoshin Kanri, Policy Deployment for Successful TQM
Yoji Akao, Editor, Productivity Press, Cambridge MA, 1991.
ISBN: 0915299577
Hoshin Planning, The Developmental Approach
by Bob King, GOAL/QPC, Methuen MA, 1989.
ISBN: 187936400X

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