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Policy Deployment

Policy Deployment has also been called Hoshin Kanri, Management by Policy, Strategy Deployment, Goal Deploment and Hoshin Planning. 

Policy Deployment (Hoshin Planning) is a system of strategic and operational planning developed and refined in Japan during the 1960s by companies such as Toyota, Nippon Denso, Komatsu, and others. 

Since being introduced to the United States in the 1980s, well-known companies that have adopted Hoshin Planning include Texas Instruments, Danaher Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Parker Hannifin, Florida P&L, the Pittsburgh Symphony, Xerox, Agilent, and Bank of America.

Policy Deployment is:

§         A system of creating and improving a plan
§         A method of analyzing and assessing the Current Situation
§         A method of envisioning the Future State
§         A method of generating breakthrough improvements
§         A way of assigning duties across organization (catch ball)
§         A way of taking action as teams
§         A way of improving the planning process itself

The most effective way to build a culture of lasting, continual improvement is to tie the kaizen breakthroughs to business and organizational needs.  Policy Deployment is a process that helps accomplish this.