Lean Manga describing Hoshin Kanri. For more information visit www.hoshinkanriforest.com or read the book The Hoshin Kanri Forest: Lean Strategic Organizational Design by Productivity Press

1. CONTACT ME!
Dr.-Ing. Javier Villalba-Diez
www.hoshinkanriforest.com
h4lean@gmail.com
HOSHIN
KANRI
My name is H4.
and I can show you how to
achieve your Lean Strategic
Goals while increasing trust
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2. Let´s observe three different systems
with different complexity degrees.
Corporation Human Body Cells
All three
evolve following two
simple PRINCIPLES of
EVOLUTION
Survive
Copy
This is also
true for IDEAS and all
biologically based
behavioral patterns.
Religion
Culture
Economy
Very complex
looking human
behaviours…
… have its root
in these two
simple rules
If you
observe
human´s
interactions
…
… you will observe
three main motivators

3. In order to attain Alignment,
you need to go through a
process.
HOSHIN KANRI can only
emerge in an evolutional
manner.
Integrity
Trust
Empowerment
Alignment
Sustainable success can
only be achieved
through evolution.
Empowerment
Level 3. Managerial
Trust
Level 2. Relational
Alignment
Level 4. Organizational
Integrity
Level 1. Personal
An evolutional process in 4 levels…

4. Integrity means that
what you do, say and
think must be aligned.
Think
Say
Do
If we observe
human beings as
ecosystems, we can find
FOUR DIMENSIONS.
MIND HEART
SPIRITBODY
This human
paradigm is a solid
foundation for the strategic
direction of an
organization
The
inability to understand this
four dimensional nature of
human beings, is probably the #1
reason why leadership fails
to deliver.

5. The biggest
challenge in
implementing
this
paradigm…
… is the fact that
these
characteristics…
… are
INTRINSIC of
the system.
Please allow me to present
the only know system in
the universe able of
consciousness.
The Human Brain
The reason why Thomas
will soon be able to guide
his dad´s dog…
… is the intrinsic ability his
fantastic brain has: LEARN
and sustainably retain this
knowledge.
This learning process is
possible, because of the
structural and functional
nature of the brain: a gigantic
network of cooperative and
competing agents.
All possible because of the“miracle of MYELIN”.
MYELIN is a sort of fatty substance that
increases the information exchange
performance between neuronal cells.
Myelinization is stronger if the individual
repeats certain tasks.
The more the brain trains a certain task, the
“smarter”it will get at this task.

6. The challenge
for the LEAN
LEADER is to
guide
organizational
network, so as
to achieve
organizational
strategic goals
while
increasing
trust.
Now think of
your organization
as a big brain…
… a complex
NETWORK in which
agents are integrated
throughout value
streams.
Wild Waters
The frame conditions
are ever changing

7. Probably is your organization
designed as a hierarchical
matrix.
The most important
characteristic of a Lean
Management System to be
attain is Value-Stream
oriented fractality.
The way I understand
HOSHIN KANRI helps you
attain and sustain such
value-stream oriented
fractality.

8. The fractal unit in
LEAN MANAGEMENT
is (CPD)nA.
Following the brain analogy,
(CPD)nA develops a structural
process oriented connection
between Process Owners.
The more you train
(CPD)nA in your
organization, the
more effective and
efficient it will
become.
In KAIZEN (改善) there is not cause
and effect. It is all a continuum.

9. Still today in the 21st century,
many Leaders manage following
the IBM-DOS“Command and
Control”efficiency paradigma.
In fact, many doors remain closed for
those Leaders because they are unable to recognize
that the rules have changed.
They themselves ARE the problem.
The fact of the matter is that the process owners in the system, the
people, are able to choose who they follow. They have an almost
unlimited connectivity. The complexity of this universe is too big to be
controlled, can only be guided.
For this reason is HOSHIN KANRI the leadership system of the future.
In order to cope with these
new challenge, any leader
must master 4P disciplines:
People, Project, People and
Product Management.

10. The classic two dimensional matrix
organization has many more
dimensions
Product
Function
Process
The biggest challenge is for managers to lead the
“Knowledge Worker”(*) from the two dimensional world
to a more-dimensional environment.
The agents can“swim”in the
network and perform their
activities virtually in flexible teams.
Hey! I drive No! I drive
But no organization can be
completely decentral!
The consequence of lack of alignment
could be fatal.
HOSHIN KANRI offers strategies for
attaining a common direction.

11. A Lean Leader makes
sure, like a Zen priest,
that the necessary
conditions for
sustainable growth of his
HOSHIN KANRI TREE are
given.
He knows that to know and
not to do is not to know.
This is why he is at Gemba and
tries to understand the truth
behind facts.
He understands that when you cut a branch
off the HOSHIN KANRI TREE, the whole tree
will suffer the consequences.
This is why he practices contemplation, self
control, selflessness and patience.
Organic growth is possible throughout the
endless (CPD)nA spiral.
The structure of the HOSHIN KANRI TREE is
given by the fractal value-stream structure.
The HOSHIN KANRI TREE is
supported by the Integrity of the
people within the organization.

12. The only goal of a
Lean Leader is to
make sure that
EVERYONE,
EVERY DAY, the
WHOLE DAY
practices (CPD)nA.
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