Hoshin Kanri Policy Deployment

Align your vision with daily actions for long-term success.

The Hoshin Kanri Policy Deployment App turns your company vision into practical actions at every level. Seamlessly guide your organization through the complete Hoshin Kanri process-ensuring everyone is aligned, accountable, and continuously improving toward strategic goals.

Purpose and Benefits

With a step-by-step process, this app makes policy deployment accessible and effective for every organization-bridging long-term strategy with daily work, providing transparency, and delivering measurable results through ongoing review.

Strategic Alignment: Break down vision into departmental and team objectives to ensure every action drives the company forward.
Detailed Action Planning: Define what to do, who owns it, needed resources, and clear deadlines for each objective.
Transparency & Accountability: Assign owners for every goal, and track progress with built-in review cycles.
Continuous Improvement: Foster a culture of feedback and realignment with regular progress monitoring and corrective actions.
Collaboration: Enable teams across all levels to contribute with a shared, adaptable platform for plan development.

How It Works: 5-Step Policy Deployment

The wizard-style interface guides you through the Hoshin Kanri cycle, capturing all the key details and maintaining full traceability from strategy to outcomes.

Step 1: Define Strategic Goals

Set long-term, high-level company goals with supporting descriptions, metrics, and responsible owners.

Step 2: Cascade Objectives

Translate each strategic goal into measurable departmental or team-level objectives with specific outcomes and ownership.

Step 3: Develop Action Plans

For each objective, outline detailed tasks, resource requirements, deadlines, and who's responsible.

Step 4: Monitor and Improve

Establish metrics, assign monitoring owners, set review intervals, and define corrective action plans for continuous progress.

Step 5: Final Report

Create a comprehensive, exportable summary of all strategic goals, cascaded objectives, action plans, and progress review schedule.

Use Cases

Executives and Senior Leaders: Drive company-wide strategic alignment and transparency.
Department Heads: Create objectives for their teams that ladder up to company goals.
Managers & Project Leaders: Assign actionable work and review progress toward strategic objectives.
Strategy Facilitators: Standardize and accelerate strategic planning cycles across the business.

Tips & Best Practices

Focus on a few breakthrough goals to drive real progress-avoid spreading teams too thin.
Involve stakeholders from top to bottom using "catchball" for two-way feedback and stronger commitment.
Review at least monthly for continuous improvement, not just annually.
Use clear metrics and responsibilities for all objectives, and ensure progress is visible across the organization.
Celebrate milestones to build engagement and sustain momentum.