The Hoshin Kanri Forest Lean Strategic Organizational Design

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

This book will provide a comprehensive quantifiable framework for strategically designing organizations for Lean management. Combining knowledge about strategic organizational design and Lean management, the author introduces a theory called the Hoshin Kanri Forest that considers organizations as networks with organizational structure, functional connectivity, and effective dynamic patterns for attaining an optimal strategic organizational design towards the strategic goal of Lean management. It presents the future of Lean organizations 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 organizational key-performance-indicator dynamics, gives leaders an implementation roadmap, and offers real examples from the author?s professional experience.

1. Standardization of Lean Business Communication.
2. Lean Organizational Design
3. Lean Organizational Dynamics
4. Demystifying KATA
5. Hoshin Kanri Tree
6. Project Management with Hoshin Kanri
7. Hoshin Kanri Forest
8. Management Conclusions

Javier Villalba-Diez, PhD. 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 Universität München, 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.