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How Master Planning Can Help

Master Planning is a simple-to-understand, clear, actionable process to create breakthrough strategies for your organization and get more from your strategic planning budget.

Master Planning incorporates hoshin kanri — a way of powerfully integrating planning and management — to concentrate resources on breakthrough strategies. Hoshin kanri was pioneered in the US by Hewlett Packard, Motorola and others as part of the quality revolution. It incorporates an intense goal-driven focus on metrics and measures and emphasizes the voice of the customer and alignment throughout the organization. It is a way of making dramatic improvements in an organization in a short time.

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Articles and Tools

 

Description: Master PlanningTM has its roots in a goal- and measurement-focused process called hoshin kanri. Hoshin-kanri emphasizes the voice of the customer and organizational alignment and concentration on resources to produce breakthrough strategies. It creates a simple-to-understand strategic roadmap that offers clear, measurable connections to daily operations.
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dDescription: This tool helps answer the questions of what membership, product, organization, etc. data we have, what data we need and where we can get it.
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Description: This tool is essential for conducting an environmental scan, beginning the planning process and identifying where there might be data gaps.
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