Hoshin Kanri : the strategic approach to continuous improvement
Hutchins, David C.2008
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Hoshin Kanri is a strategic approach to continuous improvement in quality that provides a context for all of the individual elements such as Six Sigma or lean manufacturing. This work shows how to develop a dynamic vision for continuous improvement and to implement effective policies to support it. The results of the quality revolution have been mixed. Global competition has elevated the most successful companies, in terms of providing goods and services, but even then initiatives such as total quality, business process re-engineering and Six Sigma have been heralded as the solution, only to have been replaced with the next 'big thing' when it came along. Hoshin Kanri is not the next big thing in quality, it is a strategic approach to continuous improvement that provides a context for all of the individual elements such as Six Sigma or Lean Manufacturing. David Hutchins' Hoshin Kanri shows you how to develop a dynamic vision for continuous improvement; to implement effective policies to support it; to link key performance indicators to Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing and Kaizen and to sustain a strategy-led programme for improving business performance.
Main title:
Hoshin Kanri : the strategic approach to continuous improvement / David Hutchins.
Author:
Imprint:
Aldershot : Gower, 2008.
Collation:
xvii, 287 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Notes:
Formerly CIP. UkIncludes index.
Contents:
1: Hoshin Kanri - An Overview; 2: Creating the Vision; 3: Strategy and Tactics; 4: Driver Policies: Becoming Fit, Fast, Lean and Hungry!; 5: Driver Measures to KPIs; 6: Benchmarking; 7: Prioritising KPIs and Cost of Poor Quality; 8: Risk Management; 9: The Loose Brick; 10: Policy Deployment and Control; 11: The Voice of the Customer; 12: Supply Chain Management; 13: Six Sigma; 14: Lean Manufacturing; 15: Process Analysis and Process Re-Engineering; 16: The Principles of Continuous Improvement; 17: Quality Circles; 18: Business Management Systems (Auditing Hoshin Kanri); 19: Quality Function Deployment; 20: Education; 21: Suggestions for Performance Indicators; 22: Implementation Plan
ISBN:
9780566087400 (hbk)
Dewey class:
658.4013
LC class:
HD62.13
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
857569