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Qualica Planning Suite for Hoshin is a fully integrated planning environment for strategy and project planning. Leveraging the power of Hoshin Kanri and elements of Goal Directed Project Management (GDPM) Qualica Planning Suite for Hoshin effectively supports project leaders in meeting project timelines and mitigating project risks. Hierarchical cascading of enterprise to site and department objectives is fully synchronized – changes and new goals are cascaded down and status is flown up in hierarchy upon a mouse click.

A3 Visual Planning

Classical application of Hoshin is a paper based process where most of the information is summarized on A3-size posters placed on planning boards of departments. This visual approach to management is considered a major factor for success of Hoshin. The paper based approach does not always scale well to the needs of global and distributed organizations.

Extended Planning

Qualica Planning Suite for Hoshin integrates A3 forms in a repository of linked projects. Forms and projects can be reviewed online, printed and posted or published on the intranet. Actions can be exported to and synchronized with MS Project.

Full Integration

With Qualica Planning Suite for Hoshin you can leverage the power of integration with the full DFSS toolkit. Use AHP for prioritization, DSM for project sequencing, or scorecards for performance tracking and apply Hoshin Planning and GDPM to Systems Engineering.

A3 Report
X-Matrix
A3 Report Team Charter

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Method	Where to Use	What Qualica Provides
Linked Subprojects	To cascade higher level to lower level goals	Linking of high level actions to lower level projects
AHP	To weight individual requirements or projects	Ready-to-use templates for both single-level and hierarchical AHP.
Performance Scorecard	To track performance of key process measures	Performance Scorecard template
Design Structure Matrix	To determine optimum sequencing of projects and actions	DSM template
MS Project Link	To synchronize Hoshin Kanri with project planning	MS Project Export and Synchronization.
Concept Selection	to weight different solution models against each other, trying to determine the optimum solution for a given set of requirements.	Ready-to-use templates for New Concept Selection. They can be used for stand-alone analysis or in combination with QFD projects.