Align Teams Around Shared Goals

Cascading strategic objectives and aligning departments around shared goals is often one of the most challenging aspects of strategy deployment. This alignment process – known as Catchball – is one of the core components of Hoshin Kanri.

Amplon makes Catchball fast, transparent, and empowering by helping teams cascade objectives and visually identify alignment (or gaps) across the organization. But Amplon goes beyond traditional top-down alignment—it also supports horizontal alignment and enables joint initiatives across departments, offering a comprehensive and secure solution for organizational alignment.

With our unique meta-information capabilities, you can also track specific company-wide priorities—such as sustainability – across all X matrices with ease.

Cascading Objectives and Projects

Ultimately, it’s people who bring strategy to life. Amplon provides a clear and effective way to communicate and cascade strategic objectives across the organization.

It’s especially powerful for managing projects that involve collaboration across multiple teams or departments.

Alignment Builder

The Alignment Builder is designed to support organizations in their Catchball process. As teams or lower-level units evaluate the objectives set by their parent organization and plan their contributions, they create connections between their goals and the parent objectives—establishing alignment step by step.

Management gains real-time visibility into how objectives are cascaded and aligned across the entire organization.

Amplon alignment checker tool for cascading top-level objectives and aligning teams toward common goals.
Hoshin planning X matrix for setting team priorities, enhanced by Amplon for alignment and side-by-side comparison of multiple matrices using reporting and analytics.

Side-by-side Alignment Comparison

Cross-organizational alignment is one of the core reasons organizations adopt the Hoshin Kanri method.

Effective and engaging strategy work empowers teams to plan their own contributions to higher-level objectives—while still ensuring the outcome is a coherent, aligned strategy.

Amplon simplifies this alignment process with powerful features like the side-by-side view report, which displays multiple X matrices in a single dashboard. This allows management to effortlessly track progress and ensure alignment across the organization.

Aligment Features at a Glance

  • Objective Cascading: Cascade objectives from the top down to departments and teams, ensuring organizational alignment. This hierarchical alignment helps integrate strategic goals into daily operations.
  • KPI and project Sharing: Share KPIs and projects among departments to ensure transparency and alignment with common goals. This is highly beneficial in managing organization-wide projects.
  • Meta-Data Tags: Attach configurable tags to projects, objectives, and KPIs, enhancing transparency and enabling detailed reporting across the organization. Use tags to align activities with support functions.
  • Alignment visualization: Visualize the objective and KPI hierarchy to better understand how objectives are cascaded. Use side-by-side views to compare multiple X matrixes.

Digitalize. Simplify. Optimize.

Robust, intuitive, and built to fit your organization – Amplon is everything you need for Hoshin Kanri in one solution.

  • Intuitive platform with unlimited user access
  • Tailored to fit your strategic needs
  • Seamless implementation and onboarding
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