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Our Hoshin Kanri solution

Deliver well-balanced, connected, and transparent plans with the only rotatable x-matrix inside i-nexus

Crystal clear visibility

i-nexus removes the bad from Hoshin Kanri.

No broken spreadsheets. No searching for the right plan. i-nexus makes everything crystal clear.

Every goal and project feeds success. Automatically create your metric bowling chart. Account for every resource and owner. Every corner of your business connected to the i-nexus x-matrix.

With i-nexus, Hoshin Kanri is simply easier and takes less effort.

The only rotatable x-matrix

The small things matter. So, unlike other x-matrix software or spreadsheets, the i-nexus x-matrix rotates, unlocking unmatched value.

Rotate the plan to the level you’re interested in. Experience an unlimited version of x-matrix planning. Go beyond the surface and pinpoint the operational barriers between you and your strategic goals.

With i-nexus, there’s no printing copies or a need to master spreadsheets. Everything you need is here.

Focus your plan

Our x-matrix puts you in control of building and delivering a focused, balanced plan.

That means focusing on where your team spends their time, balancing your resources by spotting execution overlaps, and delivering that plan with clarity of performance.

Our x-matrix opens up a world of detail to ensure you can spot what makes, or breaks, your plan.

Connectivity

Connectivity is at the core of our Hoshin Kanri toolset.

Our x-matrix isn’t just a planning tool. Build your x-matrix in i-nexus, and you’ll enjoy automatically generated bowling charts based on your plan.

But it doesn’t stop there. You can build supporting projects, countermeasures, and metrics inside the x-matrix and bowling chart.

i-nexus is the place for your goals, cutting admin down to size.

Tools made for Hoshin Kanri

i-nexus takes you out of spreadsheets, slides, emails, folders, and countless project management solutions. In its place are tools that offer a canvas for planning, executing, and tracking what’s driving your Hoshin goals.

Plan

The place to plan

Bring your strategic plan to life and leave behind emails, slides, and spreadsheets inside one solution – i-nexus.

With the multi-dimensional x-matrix planning tool, and collaborative catchball goal setting, you can easily build all the elements of your plan, keep them connected, and focus all activity against one shared true north so that you’re confident of an error-free, robust plan.

  • X-matrix planning

    Build a robust plan with our interactive x-matrix, taking you from true north to breakthrough results
  • Catchball goal setting

    Build, cascade, and agree on captivating, inspiring goals that your organization believes in
  • Build portfolios and projects

    Create a balanced portfolio of improvement priorities, attach strategic themes, and build projects to bring strategy to action
  • Planning cycles

    Use archive, current, and future state mode to call back to previous x-matrix plans, build your current direction on those insights, and plan for future scenarios, so that every plan is covered

Execute

Align everything to the plan

Take your plan to action with portfolios and projects, tightly aligned to your short- and long-term goals.

With i-nexus, you control the pace and quality of delivery with best-practice templates and process workflows, powered by a suite of tools to drive home the way you want to work and keep everything focused on true north.

Whether delivering a project, leading the PMO, or providing your executive team with insights, you’ll drive buy-in of the plan, and build a stronger execution and achievement culture.

  • Portfolio execution

    Track real-time portfolio performance and get early visibility of risks and delivery challenges to your plan’s success
  • Program and project management

    Create and manage projects, from simple “just do it” projects to larger stage-gate projects and complex programs
  • Govern your execution

    Help your Hoshin deployment gain pace with best practice templates, techniques, and workflows to encourage the right steps are taken, by the right people, at the right time
  • Empower your team

    Manage your team’s growth and encourage improvement ideas you can execute in projects – all to reinforce shared ownership of achieving your goals

Track

Know if the plan is working

Inside i-nexus, metrics and projects link, forming impactful KPI bowling charts and scorecards to focus your team, all easily updated with data and journals, creating a crisp picture of performance.

With the ability to analyze root causes and implement countermeasures, and use dashboards and automatic reports on financial targets and KPIs, you can keep everything on track, identify exceptions, and prove the impact and benefits of your plan.

Knowing if the strategy is going to plan is painless with i-nexus.

  • Automated KPI bowling chart

    Track your metrics and KPIs real-time, with an on-demand bowling chart, readily updated by your team or integrated apps
  • A3 root cause analysis and countermeasures

    Bring the plan back on track with exception reporting, and tools to find and correct root causes with A3 action plans and metric sheets
  • Clarity and engagement

    Drive accountability by clearly showing your team how they support strategic goals, and keep them engaged with a view of the impact and benefits they’re creating
  • Link results to financial measures

    Keep track of financial targets across your organization, avoid double-counting, and ensure crystal clear reviews and assessments of results against variable forecast scenarios

More goals, less effort

i-nexus takes you from plan to action with its strategic portfolio management tools. Group projects and programs into strategic portfolios, and keep everyone and everything that matters tightly aligned to your goals.

Go beyond your patchwork of technologies for crystal clear visibility of projects, investments, and resources, ensuring business agility to adapt to tomorrow.

With i-nexus, you’ll prioritize and align your portfolios with tools that help you

Assess portfolios’ alignment and impact on your goals

Balance capacity, demand, and schedules

Digitalize your ways of working

Evaluate performance, funding, and people

Analyze delivery and dependencies

Portfolios managed in i-nexus include

  • Private Equity
  • Mergers & Acquisition
  • Operational excellence
  • Financial
  • Transformation
  • ESGs

The i-nexus difference

We wrap around you

i-nexus wraps around how you want to deliver your goals. Languages, locations, products, processes. Exactly how you want it. All inside one solution.

We support

We use two decades of experience in strategy execution, Hoshin Kanri, Lean, and project management to help you overcome challenges, spot gaps, and accelerate success.

We integrate

i-nexus is your single source of truth, connecting project management software, ERP, CRM, and other critical systems to give you a total view of what matters to deliver results.

Trusted by global organizations

The place to deliver your goals

We’ve helped organizations like yours

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