Measures of Progress

Measure of progress are the connecting tissue in your Hoshin Kanri. Measure of progress link your Vision, Goals, Strategies and Bets.

Monitoring your Measures of Progress shows you how aligned your excecution is with your strategy and how effective your strategy is in making the change in the world you want to see.

• how do you know if you’re on the right track

• how do you verify your strategy / ratioalise your choices (early on in workshops / developing new ideas not just when doing the work) you need to be able articulartion the rationale for how one thign will help you achieve another

• Measure of Progress (MoP) help us understand what direction we are moving in, before we get to the destination

• Measure of Success (MoS) tend to be binary and do not encourage learning and experimentation

• For the purpose of your Hoshin Kanri measures of progress help you assess the relationships between your bets, strategies and goals

• Measures of progress should cascade i.e. become more granular and specific as you progress from Goals to Strategies to Bets

What good looks like

• measurable
• a mixture of leading and lagging
• a mixture of customer and business related
• related across the Vision, Goals, Strategy and Bets but not the same

Red flags

• vanity meterics, status metrics
• proxy metrics