Managing on Purpose

By Mark Reich

Foreword by Jeffrey Liker and John Shook.

In MANAGING ON PURPOSE, Mark Reich brings decades of experience developing and executing hoshin kanri, first-hand within Toyota, including as an executive for Corporate Srategy in North America, and at the Lean Enterprise Institute as Chief Engineer, Strategy. While working with the LEI community and teaching a highly rated workshop on hoshin kanri, Mark has seen the struggles executives and organizations face when trying to move from strategy to coordinated actions and desired results:

• Leaders try to change direction, but people aren't clear how to follow.
• Mechanisms to pursue a common strategy, alignment, and collaboration are missing.
• Methods and capabilities don't exist to execute strategy.
• People throughout the organization are not engaged or developed as strategic targets are pursued and actions undertaken.
• Systems are lacking to review and adapt strategy when internal and external factors necessitate adjustment.

Mark presents proven practices that he applied at Toyota and when helping companies of various sizes and across industries succeed with hoshin kanri. By following the detailed case study in this workbook and reading Mark's explicit advice along the way, you and others in your organizations will learn the practices and tools to:

• Developed, communicate, and align on strategy up and down the organizations and across functions by developing corporate and department hoshin while proactively engaging in horizontal and vertical catchball.
• Establish systems to regularly review progress toward hoshin objectives (obeya and daily management).
• Set strategy and problem-solve with A3s to tackle frontline problems in the work and adjust quickly when strategy meets the real world and things do not go as planned.

Alongside other key management books published by LEI-incluiding Managing to Learn and The Work of Management- Managing on Purpose will help you set the future for your organization, achieve your goals, and engage and develop peale as hoshin kanri becomes the norm and objectives are achieved.

Mark Reich is the consummate guide to applying hoshin kanri. This workbook, Managing on Purpose, will help you create an organizations that is laser-focused - John Shook and Jeffrey Liker.