E-hoshin

eHoshin: Participative goals setting tool for emerging organizations

Ehoshin

Team

• Owner : Pierre Masai, Pierre Parrend
• Developer : Nicolas Toussaint

Challenge

• Objective for the end-user: allow an emerging behavior of the goals setting process of the organisation dramatically improving the quality and buy in of the result.
• Scientific objective: observe the actual behavior of a process typical of Lean and compare it to our model of Lean as a Complex System.

Features

• eHoshin is a web application aiming to help organizations to improve/start their own hoshin process. The Hoshin Kanri process (‘compass management’) is the top down and bottom up process originated in Japan in the 1960’s to align goals of organizations. It involves employees at all levels, enabling emerging behaviors as a complex system.
• eHoshin helps organizations by allowing their employees to participate to that process conveniently from any location, thereby increasing their involvement and the quality and buy in of the result.

• This is an open source version aiming to adapt the application to your own process and to set you own security systems (users authentication and data). If you don't need strong security protection, you can use the common web site. It is a running eHoshin web site with multiple team spaces. Just create a user, your own team and invite some co-workers to try it.

Implementation

• The application is developed in Python, using the Django framework.
• The common version is running on a free Heroku instance hosted on AWS (Amazon Web Services).
• The private version running Toyota is using the same common open source code, but the data are secured and the security system is integrated with the Toyota Active Directory, enabling all employees to log in to the application using their existing AD credentials. It is hosted on AWS, using a private, paid for version of Heroku.

Downloading

• Executable : https://commonehoshin.herokuapp.com/
• Referenced on site http://www.ehoshin.org/ (owner : Pierre Masai)
• Public sources : https://github.com/toussaintn/ehoshin
• iCube Forge : https://icubeforge.unistra.fr/n.toussaint/ehohsin.git

Publications

• Is the Lean Organisation a Complex System? Pierre Masai, Pierre Parrend, Nicolas Toussaint, Pierre Collet, Complex Systems – Digital Campus (CS-DC) e-Conference, 2015, Published by Springer, August 2016
• Results of eHoshin experiment to be shared at Lean Summit UK, October 2016