PlanBase Inc. - Hoshin Kanri and Balanced Scorecard Software


   

PlanBase Solutions

Collaborative web-based tools to simplify strategy deployment and process management

PlanBase provides software, consulting, and training services to organizations looking to achieve breakthrough in their lean efforts. PlanBase software solutions are most often implemented in a “Software as a Service” (SaaS) delivery model for rapid deployment and simplified management that results in a lower cost of ownership. PlanBase also offers premise-based software implementations.

PlanBase software solutions equip executives, managers, and employees with the information they need to achieve strategic goals and deliver monthly targets in a shared, up-to-date, Web-based system. Our Web-based tools foster real-time collaboration on strategic deployment and metric tracking. Whatever you call your strategy deployment and process management initiatives -- Hoshin planning, strategy deployment, goal deployment, policy deployment, balanced scorecard, breakthrough planning -- PlanBase makes it easier to manage and track your performance.

PlanBase Hoshin and PlanBase Scorecard put information in the hands of the people who need it. PlanBase Hoshin brings transparency to strategy deployment, accountability to strategy execution, and visibility to progress. PlanBase Scorecard brings visibility, communication, and continuous improvement to your process management initiatives.

With PlanBase, your continuous improvement teams will experience increased awareness, motivation, alignment, and ultimately – organizational success.

We invite you to learn more about the PlanBase Hoshin and PlanBase Scorecard solutions, which can be utilized together or individually.  Both are available on an evaluation basis.  Please Contact Us for more information.

  

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Recent Highlights

Testimonials:
“I don’t have to wait for someone else to run a report, it is much easier now. Within a few clicks I have all the information at my fingertips before the management review meeting” “This drill down feature is fantastic. Within a couple of clicks I can see exactly where the issues are and what is being done about them.” "This tool is just fantastic. I love it! I'm adding 100 more users." “The Heat Map is a really useful feature and a quick way to search for performance issues across the business.” “Our old system was so unfriendly in comparison. We had to wait for updates and replications, thankfully that is all in the past now.” “The My Review screen update is an excellent improvement! The to-do list style makes it quick and easy to update my progress on all tasks in 1 location... well done!”

Hoshin & Scorecard testimonials

Current Month Release:

PDF Report Writer allows you to export your entire plan with one click for easy publication sharing.

A Previous Release:

Move Strategies around when building or modifying a plan. Turn a plan into a strategy or a strategy into a plan.

Data Subsets allows users to customize their views and navigate the system with their favorite metrics and businesses.

Clone Strategy enables you to copy a strategy and all its supporting details to another strategy with one click.

Secondary Strategy enables a strategy to appear in multiple plans (or in multiple places in the same plan) updating in only one place.

X Matrix - Companies that choose to enable it can now view their Hoshin plans as an X Matrix.

Pareto analysis and Variance analysis to each process and metric review on the Process Review screen.

Show Me feature adds a collection of short e-learning modules for features of the Hoshin and Scorecard applications

Heat Map screen shows a summary of performance by business unit or function vs. metric with targets as and actuals.

Visual Management of tactics, improvements, and corrective actions to show current status and overdue reviews.

Linking Strategies to your Scorecards allows you to jump between plans and scorecards, sharing tactics between both.

Dynamic A3 chart showing all progress of metrics, process improvements and corrective actions together in one screen.

Batch Load allows you to upload the actuals and targets for multiple metrics at the same time.

Alerts in the form of within-system messages, e.g. strategy complete, strategy approved, and review overdue messages. 

Multi-year plans allow you to extend any plan to cover multiple years or convert it to an annual plan.

Responsibilities Screen displays the creation and review status of every strategy, tactic, and metric that you own at a glance.

My Reviews page shows everything you need to review in a to-do list-style in one place and lets you update the reviews right there without going to another screen.

Review Overdue reminder email link now goes directly to the My Reviews page where you may already be logged in, saving you even more time.

Review Overdue Reminders are now available up to three times per month.

X-Matrix is now available in an interactive mode with linkages to dashboards.

Keep Me Logged In feature allows you to stay logged in on a trusted device for up to 4 months, no more passwords to remember or getting locked out.

Extended list of enhancements