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The Hoshin Kanri Forest by Dr.-Ing. Javier Villalba-Diez Strategic Lean management efforts significantly fail because leaders often lack a map of their organizations. Given in a colloquial manner, this keynote about the The Hoshin Kanri Forest by its author Dr.-Ing. Javier Villalba-Diez, is for Lean practitioners who seek to design organizational structures that functionally support the dynamics associated with Lean Management. This video will provide a comprehensive introduction to a quantifiable framework for strategically designing organizations for Lean management. Combining knowledge about strategic organizational design and Lean management, the author introduces a theory called The Hoshin Kanri Forest that considers organizations as networks with organizational structure, functional connectivity, and effective dynamic patterns for attaining an optimal strategic organizational design towards the strategic goal of Lean management. It presents the future of Lean organizations relying on strategically designing its structure, function, and effective dynamics.