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The Hoshin Kanri Forest

Lean Strategic Organizational Design
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The Hoshin Kanri Forest explores the challenges of effective Lean management by providing a strategic, quantifiable framework for designing organisations that support Lean principles. Javier Villalba-Diez, PhD, introduces the theory of the Hoshin Kanri Forest, viewing organisations as dynamic networks composed of structure, functional connectivity, and effective patterns. This work offers leaders a roadmap for implementing Lean management through strategic organisational design, with an emphasis on evolving towards a peaceful Lean revolution.
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This book is ideal for Lean practitioners, organisational strategists, and business leaders seeking to deepen their understanding of Lean management through advanced organisational design. It suits those interested in combining strategic theory with practical implementation within business and entrepreneurship contexts.

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Strategic Lean management efforts significantly fail because leaders often lack a map of their organisations. Written in a colloquial manner, The Hoshin Kanri Forest is for Lean practitioners who seek to design organisational structures that functionally support the dynamics associated with Lean Management.

This book will provide a comprehensive quantifiable framework for strategically designing organisations for Lean management. Combining knowledge about strategic organisational design and Lean management, the author introduces a theory called the Hoshin Kanri Forest that considers organisations as networks with organisational structure, functional connectivity, and effective dynamic patterns for attaining an optimal strategic organisational design towards the strategic goal of Lean management. It presents the future of Lean organisations relying on strategically designing its structure, function, and effective dynamics.

This book is about describing an evolutional approach toward a peaceful Lean revolution. It includes useful insights into organisational key-performance-indicator dynamics, gives leaders an implementation roadmap, and offers real examples from the author’s professional experience.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781498785501

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 27 January 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Productivity Press

Illustration: 24 Illustrations, color; 1 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 420g

Pages: 138

About the Author

Javier Villalba-Diez, PhD.Β is currently director and founder of an international consulting company that has the mission of empowering organizations achieve their strategic goals while increasing trust. Dr. Villalba-Diez is a Mechanical Engineer with Technische UniversitΓ€t MΓΌnchen, Germany and Industrial Engineer with Technical University Madrid, Spain (2003) He received his PhD in Engineering, Economics and Organizational Innovation from the Technical University Madrid in 2016. His current research interests include Hoshin Kanri and business intelligence. He has a background of more than 15 years as lean consultant and several years as production manager in a number of positions related to manufacturing operations in German, American and Japanese manufacturing facilities. His research and work has brought him to numerous companies and hundreds of factories, where he collaborates with people to test ideas and share lessons learned. He splits his time between Spain, Germany, USA, and Japan.

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