The Balanced Scorecard and Hoshin Kanri approaches are often used alongside each other. We have encountered clients who have tried to implement both approaches and have had problems combining the two. These articles help you link these two approaches and untangle any confusion.
In part, the problems are because approaches such as Hoshin Kanri have actually taken parts of the Kaplan & Norton approach and incorporated pieces, but not all, into their approach. Not realising or understanding this overlap can lead to confusion and conflicts.
If you have a lean approach such as Hoshin Kanri, and a balanced scorecard, these articles will help you. They will help you to untangle the mix of approaches so they can work together, using the strengths of each.
Browse and explore the various articles below...
by Phil Jones | Updated 15 Feb, 2018 | Balanced Scorecard and Hoshin Kanri, Strategy
A recent question on Linkedin was about deploying Hoshin Planning as a part of a strategic Planning process. Few respondents seemed to have come across this in action, so here was my response: Untangling problems with Hoshin Planning Let me tell you about a client I...
by Phil Jones | Updated 15 Feb, 2018 | Balanced Scorecard and Hoshin Kanri, Examples & case studies
Recently a client, a very large Government body, was having a few problems with their planning process. How to engage with their managers, getting the tools of strategy and performance to make coherent sense as a whole, making the story of their strategy clear,...
by Phil Jones | Updated 15 Feb, 2018 | Balanced Scorecard and Hoshin Kanri
In this article in a series on Lean thinking and the balanced scorecard we look at how operational measures are represented in balanced scorecard terms and the increasingly popular “Performance hub”. At an operational level it is extremely useful to...
by Phil Jones | Updated 15 Feb, 2018 | Balanced Scorecard and Hoshin Kanri
Both lean thinking and the balanced scorecard are very popular techniques, which on closer inspection overlap in their thinking and approach. Of course this is reassuring because both approaches are based on a degree of common sense. It is also true of six sigma...
by Phil Jones | Updated 15 Feb, 2018 | Balanced Scorecard and Hoshin Kanri
Lean thinking and process improvement is extremely popular and rightly so. Lean thinking uses a number of practices and approaches to ensure that the processes in an organisation are as efficient as possible and, most importantly, address what the customer wants. In...
by Phil Jones | Updated 15 Feb, 2018 | Balanced Scorecard and Hoshin Kanri
A client in the public sector are undertaking a large lean initiative to reduce costs and improve services. When I started talking to them about fourth generation balanced scorecards, they asked how it related to their “Strategy deployment matrix”. I...
