Hoshin Kanhri, Strategy Deployment, Policy Deployment, Seven Steps, X-Matrices that turn on their axis, catchball… the list goes on. I don’t know about you, but it all gets a bit overwhelming. Human beings can take any idea and turn it into complicated gobbley-goo. From what I’ve been able to understand, many organizations (including Toyota) use what has been called a “Hoshin” (as well as other names) process to set and deploy a few critical high-level objectives throughout the organization.
