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"Dploy Strategy replaces the time spent on tedious paperwork and spreadsheets and allows people to utilize their valuable time building processes that will create lasting shareholder value."

Greg Anapol,
VP Brady Business Performance System,
Brady Corporation

Dploy Strategy - Accelerated Policy Deployment. Stay connected to your objectives, your resources and your people.

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What is Policy Deployment (Hoshin Kanri or Hoshin Planning)?

  • A process for focusing resources on breakthrough objectives
  • A proven way to drive financial success
  • Most effective process to align daily efforts with corporate strategy

What is Dploy Strategy?

A web-based solution that allows you to deploy strategy successfully in real-time, enterprise-wide by cutting through the clutter, communicating long-term vision, proactively identifying and removing roadblocks, tracking quantifiable results, measuring performance versus goal, and keeping your team on track.

Why use a web-based solution for Policy Deployment?

  • Better execution of strategic objectives
  • Efficiently, affordably transform your strategy into measurable results
  • Align your company resources with critical tasks
  • Focus entire organization on breakthrough objectives vs. firefighting
  • Develop a culture of disciplined, continuous improvement
  • Achieve global visibility on projects and their results

 

  • Resources
  • X Matrix
  • Bowler Chart
  • Action Plans
  • Root Cause & Countermeasures

Resources for Dploy Strategy

Quickly see your strategic initiatives at a glance. In just a few seconds, you can immediately understand how a project is tracking versus goal. As a result, you can identify which projects are on task or behind, drill down to the action plans, root cause and countermeasures. Then, you can prioritize your time and focus on supporting the projects where you can make an impact. Everyone wins, because breakthroughs will happen.

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Product benefits and general information about Dploy Strategy.

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Case study >>

Plan for Success through Policy Deployment
A company that has committed to a lean transformation also has committed to working toward long-term growth and success. This requires planning for the future as well as creating operational excellence today. Although many companies understand the need for planning, doing so is perceived as much more difficult than dealing with the day-to-day operational improvements, and so often planning goes undone or poorly done. And yet, if a company wants to truly transform, its management team must learn to plan for the future. A lean company does this planning through Policy Deployment.

Dploy Strategy casestudy

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TBM and Dploy® Solutions help a plastics manufacturer take the mystery out of strategy deployment.
This packaging manufacturer needed to provide its employees with a clear line of sight into its business strategy—from the vision at the top all the way down to the operator level. See how they used Dploy Strategy to help implement a series of reviews and countermeasures for managing the strategy deployment process and improve long-range results.

Dploy Plastics article


Communicate Long-Term Vision, Objectives and Expectations for Success

Instantly see what your organization needs to achieve over the next 3-5 years – how far you need to go, how you'll achieve that goal with focused annual objectives and who needs to deliver by when.

As a leader, the process of Policy Deployment and the use of an X Matrix make strategy deployment visible to the entire organization. Team leaders and cross-functional support teams are identified and everyone is on the same page clearly understanding expectations for success. Automatically link corporate goals directly to the point of impact by cascading to the departments and individuals responsible.


Track Quantifiable, Measurable Performance vs. Goal

Project owners update status monthly, from anywhere, anytime. Red and green indicators let you know if teams are meeting goals. Quickly cut to the chase and remove obstacles to get progress back on track.

 

 

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Proactively Identify and Remove Roadblocks

Capture critical milestones so that what you plan gets done. Clearly identify critical path actions, see who's responsible for delivering and when, and monitor progress easily. No more getting to the end of a project and asking, "How did this happen?"– now you always know what happened because you had a plan and you can see what worked and where things fell down. Even more important – you can fix problems before they snowball. Track progress daily with due dates, owners and percentage complete.

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Get Your Team Back on Track

Identify the problem, address the issue and fix it, using the discipline of root cause analysis. Quickly identify targets that are falling behind so you can remove obstacles, immediately reallocate resources and get back on track.

 

 

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Policy Deployment or Hoshin Kanri?

Policy Deployment, also known as Hoshin Kanri or Hoshin Planning, is a systems approach for managing change in a critical business process using a step-by-step planning, implementation, and review process.

What is Dploy Strategy?

Dploy Strategy is a lean, six sigma web-based solution that simplifies and accelerates the process of Policy Deployment. Used in lean manufacturing, Dploy Strategy is one of several web-based solutions offered by the TBM Consulting Group to accelerate the process of lean policy deployment, metrics tracking and best practice sharing.

How can Dploy Strategy help my lean manufacturing company?

The strategic planning process can be intense. Often companies fall behind on execution and can lose their focus. The process of Policy Deployment helps you stay on target to achieve breakthrough initiatives that require out-of-the-box thinking, systematic action, accountability, and visibility. Dploy Strategy offers the advantage of accelerated Policy Deployment. This innovative business management software makes it easy to systematically implement your short-term and long-term strategic plan. If you want improved performance with measurable results, Dploy Strategy is the right performance management software for you.

Why do we need a web-based product or "tool" to facilitate the Policy Deployment process?

Policy Deployment is challenging and requires senior-level commitment as well as dedication and focus from managers responsible for achieving strategic objectives.

How does Dploy Strategy simplify the Policy Deployment process?

Executing strategy is particularly difficult when there are multiple key players -- for example, cross-functional teams, multiple sites, and outside suppliers. Dploy Strategy provides the management tools to keep everyone on the same page, working cohesively toward accomplishing breakthrough results. It gives you the ability to align resources, track progress, and remove roadblocks while providing a process to set objectives, define critical path processes, encourage action planning, and establish a culture of root cause and countermeasure. Think of it as a systematic way to operationalize Plan, Do, Check, Act throughout the organization.