by Lee Fried, on 16 Jan 2007 04:45 pm
The Journey
Quote of the Week
This week’s quote comes out of a Hoshin planning session that we conducted this last Friday with the Model Line leadership team. The quote comes from Hope Wiljanen our Sensei as she describes the PDCA process of Hoshin Strategy Deployment.
‘When we talk about PDCA it should be capital P, lowercase D, capital C, lowercase A. This is backwards from conventional thinking where organizations spend most of their time and energy on doing and acting. Moving forward we need to devote our time and energy on planning and checking. This is the discipline that will make us successful.’
Over the last three months we have been working to incorporate PDCA discipline into our Model Line planning process. We are quite literally building a new management system in the organization and it is fascinating. There are many attributes of this system including developing standard work for managers, redesigning the strategic planning process, developing a strategic deployment process and most important formalizing the checking process at all levels. It will take several years to fully put in place, but by year end I think we will show great progress.
on 13 Feb 2007 at 7:25 pm 1.Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » Think Long Term Act Daily said …
[...] Great stuff from the DailyKaizen: Over the last three months we have been working to incorporate PDCA discipline into our Model Line planning process. We are quite literally building a new management system in the organization and it is fascinating. There are many attributes of this system including developing standard work for managers, redesigning the strategic planning process, developing a strategic deployment process and most important formalizing the checking process at all levels. It will take several years to fully put in place, but by year end I think we will show great progress. [...]