Introduction to Strategy Deployment

Event Description

Strategy Deployment, or Hoshin Kanri, is a very powerful Lean Leadership process that truly engages all leaders and associates in developing and deploying company strategies. Strategy deployment involves three critical aspects:

• determining the key metrics that define a healthy, thriving organization
• defining breakthrough strategies that will drive the metrics (over the long term)
• identifying the must-do/can’t-fail initiatives that must be undertaken now to implement these strategies

Strategy Deployment is a great tool to help you create change by strategically aligning your Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) with your business goals and objectives. In doing this, you give a clear message, purpose and create leverage for everyone to fully engage in the change process. If a CPI implementation is not aligned with business goals and objectives it will be very difficult to sustain. Without a plan, there is no clear destination to head towards.

About your presenter

Steve Hirt, Optima Associates, Inc.

Steve has a passion for guiding organizations on their continuous improvement (lean) journey. He is skilled at helping leaders link their behaviors and actions with business results. He provides customers with a strategic approach of planning, leading, measuring, monitoring and controlling the change and standardization of critical processes. The focus is on a systems approach to improving business results. Steve’s mission is to help organizations optimize change to create world-class performance.