Hoshin Kanri
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CORE DEFINITION
A systematic method for cascading a company's high-level strategic goals down to grassroots action plans. It emphasizes Catchball—iterative negotiation between superiors and subordinates to ensure alignment.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
Reduce cognitive load
- Top-down alignment: solves the disconnect where "top management has strategy, but the grassroots are busy with trivial tasks." Ensures that everyone's daily work is invisibly connected to the company's North Star metric.
Anchor fast decisions
Originating from Japanese quality management's "policy deployment" (Hoshin Kanri), it cascades strategy down to the grassroots level, and uses Catchball (iterative negotiation) to align up and down, combined with the PDCA cycle.
MINIMUM ACTION
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- en.wikipedia.orghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoshin_Kanriverified
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