ABSTRACT

There are temporary organizations formed to find a repeatable and scalable business model and permanent organizations grown to implement a repeatable and scalable business model. Planning happens in startups, albeit it’s a minimal or real-time form of it. Like Hoshin, successful startup planning also seems to deploy one major priority at a time, review frequently, and change course efficiently in response to new information. Startups are generally great at using social exchange to develop and vet ideas and get funding. They seem to do at least two things that traditional companies might try to do better: staying open to who they can cooperate with, and repurposing others’ ideas. Startup founders are improving on other people’s ideas all the time. Hoshin groups seeking breakthroughs might consider what is already out there that might be tweaked to produce a breakthrough for their business.