Using Hoshin Kanri to Align and Coordinate Your Lean Strategy

How to Turn Strategy Into Execution With Clear Priorities, Alignment, and Accountability

Many organizations have strategic plans — but struggle to translate those plans into coordinated action across teams, departments, and the frontline.

Hoshin Kanri (also known as strategy deployment) provides a structured, people-centered approach to aligning long-term goals with daily improvement work. When done well, it creates clarity, focus, and shared ownership across the organization.

In this on-demand webinar, hosted by KaiNexus, you’ll learn how to use Hoshin Kanri to connect strategy to execution, align improvement efforts at every level, and develop people while driving results.

This session focuses especially on the Scan and Plan phases of Hoshin Kanri — helping leaders understand what to prioritize and how to deploy those priorities effectively.

Key Insights

Hoshin Kanri is not just an annual planning exercise — it is a management system designed to create alignment, learning, and disciplined execution over time.

This webinar explores how organizations can move beyond disconnected initiatives and instead build a shared understanding of “true north.” You’ll see how scanning the internal and external environment creates clarity before planning begins, why alignment matters more than cascading goals, and how visual management and structured dialogue help strategies stay alive throughout the year.

The session also highlights how Hoshin Kanri supports leadership development by encouraging better questions, clearer thinking, and stronger accountability — without relying on top-down control.

What You’ll Learn

• What Hoshin Kanri really is — and what it is not

• Why “scan before plan” is critical to effective strategy deployment

• How to identify and focus on must-do, can’t-fail priorities

• Practical ways to align strategy from executives to the frontline

• How catchball and nemawashi build engagement and shared ownership

• The role of visual management in sustaining execution

• How Hoshin Kanri supports people development, not just results

Who This Webinar Is For

This webinar is ideal for:

• Lean, continuous improvement, and operational excellence leaders

• Executives and senior leadership teams

• Strategy, transformation, and performance improvement leaders

• Healthcare, service, and complex organizations

• Anyone struggling to align strategy with daily improvement work

Whether you’re new to Hoshin Kanri or looking to deepen your approach, this session provides practical guidance you can apply immediately.

Watch the Webinar On-Demand

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About the Presenters

Joanna Omi
Consulting Director | Rona Consulting Group, the Lean practice of Moss Adams

Joanna held senior roles in the public hospital system and the Mayor’s Office in New York City, as well as in community-based organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area. As an SVP and AVP at New York City Health+Hospitals, Joanna led efforts to implement a Lean Operating System, redesign and rebuild multiple campuses, improve access to ambulatory care and secure funding for new programs. A superb collaborator, Joanna has built consensus among diverse internal and external stakeholders, developing training programs and encouraging innovative approaches to emerging health care needs related to primary care, the emergency department, HIV/AIDS and managed care. Joanna was an editor and contributing writer to Lean in Behavioral Health (2014).  

Craig Vercruysse
Consulting Partner | Rona Consulting Group, the Lean practice of Moss Adams

Craig is a 20+ year leader across multiple industries and functional areas including operations, information technology, and sales and marketing. He served as a regional healthcare system executive for Sutter Health in COO and CIO roles, contributing to several awards and consistently high dashboard performance. Craig also served as chief process officer (CPO), pioneering in Sutter Health the development of a lean management system. He has deep knowledge of IT/electronic health record systems integration in conjunction with a lean management system. Craig’s educational background focused on systems theory grounded in organizational and interpersonal communication, capped with an MBA.