Leadership Alliance’s HoshinMAP™ (Master Action Plan)
The ultimate business/team strategic planning system for breakthrough performance

Purpose of the HoshinMAP™
• To transform the quality, performance, profitability and enjoyment of your business; • To reveal the key driving issues that will lead your organization/team to highest ongoing success;
• To identify all barriers holding you back, surface the best solutions; and create the most intelligent plan for rapid, aligned progress;
• To discover the relationships between all issues surfaced and the best starting points for maximum leverage and impact;
• To align and laser-focus your management team on the best sequenced steps for the achievement of your goals – and beyond.

Strategy
Your key management team participates in the HoshinMAP™ Strategic Action Process to:
• Ensure that all vital issues are surfaced and explored;
• Develop a strong commitment to move ahead in the right direction;
• Reduce/eliminate resistance to positive change;
• Remove barriers to collaboration and optimal communication;
• Support greater individual and team unity, leadership and commitment.

A Multi-Phase Process
1. Establish the custom foundation for your HoshinMAP™, including a strategic review of the
Deming Quality Leadership System. Identify and review your current major waste sources, and
explore all vital gain opportunities for your organization/team.
2. The Optimal Communications Process. A unique personal profiling system.
Dissolves barriers, waste and lack of clarity in communication; strengthens teamwork.
3. Explore all issues; pinpoint the vital catapult points that will leverage your organization's ability to
rapidly achieve its goals.
4. The I.D. Process - A priceless system that reveals root causes.
5. Team reviews final process outcomes. Dialogue and agreement on best internal support
systems and coaching for optimal results.

HoshinMAP™ Outcomes Include:
• A tactical action plan detailing the exact prioritized steps to your organization’s greatest success.
• A fully aligned management team, committed to working together on the key issues revealed in
your HoshinMAP™ session.
• Pro-active market leadership.
• Peak performance capabilities that grow exponentially over time.

Brief HoshinMAP™ History
The powerful yet virtually unknown Hoshin strategic planning process is strongly inspired by the work of Dr. W. Edwards Deming, legendary Einstein of Quality and Business. Deming’s work with Japan (starting in 1950) resulted in their worldwide post-war quality and economic leadership - one of only nine “Hidden Turning Points in World History” (US News & World Report cover story.) The treasured Hoshin process is a crucial guidance method top Japanese companies (and now many successful US organizations, such as Hewlett-Packard, Solectron, Intel, and NASA) utilize to ensure ongoing success. It is one of their key “secret weapons” for achieving growing profitability, quality leadership, and breakthrough performance. The process reveals the best ways to navigate change and work smarter - not harder.

Leadership Alliance's exclusive HoshinMAP™ system also introduces tools that:

•Eliminate waste
•Build teamwork
•Reduce stress
•Optimize communications
•Align operations and improvement efforts
•Guide leadership.

Summary
The HoshinMAP™ provides a custom master action system for you to achieve and exceed your goals and realize your organization’s purpose.

“It's not what we don't know that holds us back; it's what we do 'know' that isn't so."
-Dr. W. Edwards Deming

“Surfaces and powerfully articulates [your] goals, vision and master plan. Provides greater clarity and alignment, a better way of focusing one’s energies, and a strength of purpose for higher achievement...”
-Marian Linden, Head; Horace Mann Middle School

“Anything less than Hoshin is just playing at planning.”
-Geoff Crabtree, VP Strategic Planning; Methodist Healthcare System