SPS will be offering members a special deal on a different strategy-related book every month. This month, a special discount code found in our discounts section allows members a 25% discount on the fascinating new book Hoshin Kanri: the Strategic Approach to Continuous Improvement.
David Hutchins finds that the results of the quality revolution have been mixed. Global competition has elevated the most successful companies, in terms of providing goods and services, but even then initiatives such as total quality, business process re-engineering and Six Sigma have been heralded as the solution, only to have been replaced with the next ‘big thing’. Hoshin Kanri is not the next big thing in quality, he argues, but rather a strategic approach to continuous improvement that provides a context for all of the individual elements such as Six Sigma or Lean Manufacturing.
Hoshin Kanri explains how to develop a dynamic vision for continuous improvement; to implement effective policies to support it; to link key performance indicators to Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing and Kaizen; and to sustain a strategy-led programme for improving business performance.
Hutchins himself has over 40 years of continuous experience in all aspects of the quality-related sciences on a worldwide basis. He has a Masters Degree in Quality and Reliability, is a Chartered Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, Chartered Quality Professional, Fellow of the Chartered Quality Institute (CQI), a John Loxham Lecturer and author of several books and many articles. In David’s early career he was Chief Production/Industrial Engineer in the Automotive Components Industry before becoming Works Manager followed by 10 years teaching and consulting in Business Management prior to founding David Hutchins International and its International Quality College.
Dr. Vineeta Kamran, Principal, City Montessori School & College, Lucknow, India,  called the book “very enriching and all comprehensive”, saying it is: “a rare masterpiece and one of the best books I have ever read pertaining to this area of interest.”