Building: High Performance Organizations
In over 20 years of real-world experience, OLC has helped organizations develop specific "Organizational Capabilities" that enable the achievement of high performance, foster innovation and engagement, and help knowledge workers use their full potential.
OLC's "Bigger Pie" Initiative
Let's stop arguing about who gets the biggest piece of the pie, let's work together to make a bigger pie. Lack of knowledge... that is the problem -W. Edwards Deming
"How do you make a bigger pie?" The purpose of "The Bigger Pie Initiative" is to share OLC's answers to this this question with individuals and groups who seek ways to build a better world for all.
Hoshin Planning workshop ( 2 Day workshop)
Hoshin Planning is a strategic management planning system that focuses on identifying and prioritizing improvement areas that are directly related to achieving the organization's strategic objectives. Hoshin Planning is like a management compass that points the way for achieving specific organizational objectives.
Hoshin Planning workshop participants should include people from all organizational departments and levels. The purpose of Hoshin Planning is to identify the highest priority process improvement projects. It is highly desirable that those participating in the Hoshin Planning Workshop have taken one or more prior courses that give background in process definition and improvement.
Description of Hoshin Planning Sessions
Session 1 - Leadership Group Guidance
In this session, senior management provide information on the organization's strategic objectives and general guidance on the areas in which they recommend organizational objectives be established.
Session 2 - Overview of Hoshin Planning
The objective of this session is to provide participants with general training on of the principles and processes associated with Hoshin Planning and an understanding of the way in which process management tools can be used to help in designing an organizational level Hoshin Planning process.
Session 3 - Establishing Preliminary Organizational-Level Hard and Soft Objectives
This session provides an opportunity for working groups to both identify preliminary objectives and review these with meeting participants.
Session 4 - Designing a Hoshin Planning Process
This session provides participants with knowledge and skills to support their Hoshin Planning Process design effort.
Session 5 - Working Groups to Establish Top-Level Hoshin Planning Implementation Process
This session provides participants with the opportunity to get started with implementing their Hoshin planning process design effort.