Keynote Speech by Dr.

Javier Villalba Diez

Dr. Javier Villalba Diez

Keynote Speech starts: 19th June 2017, 11:00 a.m.

The Hoshin Kanri Forest. Lean Strategic Organizational Design. Embedding complexity within
Organizations

This keynote will provide TUM future doctors with a comprehensive quantifiable framework for
strategically designing organizations for Lean management. Combining knowledge about strategic
organizational design and Lean management, Dr. Javier Villalba-Diez introduces a theory called the
Hoshin Kanri Forest that considers organizations as networks with organizational structure, func-
tional 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
and explains how they can better compete in the international arena by embedding complexity
within their organizational design configuration.
This keynote is about describing an evolutional approach toward a peaceful Lean revolution. It in-
cludes useful insights into organizational key-performance-indicator dynamics, gives future Indust-
rial and organizational leaders from the TUM an implementation roadmap, and offers real examples
from the authors professional experience.

Javier Villalba participated in the double degree program T.I.M.E. (Top Industrial managers for
Europe) between Universidad Politcnica de Madrid and TUM. He received both degrees in 2003
and started work as a consultant for international companies between Japan, US and Europe. As a
researcher, lecturer, author, artist and engineer he has an illustrated approach to life.After ten years
of work experience he came back to Academia and received in 2016 his PhD from his Alma Mater
the Universidad Politcnica.
Dr. Javier Villalba Diez wrote a book about lean management: THE HOSHIN KANRI FOREST. He
calls himself an iconoclast and he is the leader of a group of HK experts that will do anything it
takes to help you achieve your organizational goals while increasing trust.