The Hoshin Kanri Forest

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.