Book Review: Hoshin Kanri - Policy Deployment for Successful TQM
This book is nearly twenty years old. In fact, I read somewhere that it's the first book on Hoshin Kanri. It's still available but it's expensive....$50 on Amazon.
Save your money. If you don't know anything about HK, this book will have you totally confused. Usually, diagrams and illustrations are a good thing but this book has a surfeit of them and most seem to be just stuck into the book with little or no explanation. Such definitions as are provided aren't adequate. "Definition of a control item: an item selected as a subject of control for maintenance of product quality." Well, there you go....clears it all up, doesn't it?
I'll look around to see if I can find another book on HK worth the price of admission.
Save your money. If you don't know anything about HK, this book will have you totally confused. Usually, diagrams and illustrations are a good thing but this book has a surfeit of them and most seem to be just stuck into the book with little or no explanation. Such definitions as are provided aren't adequate. "Definition of a control item: an item selected as a subject of control for maintenance of product quality." Well, there you go....clears it all up, doesn't it?
I'll look around to see if I can find another book on HK worth the price of admission.


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