Lean Bronze Certification Practice Exam

Catchball is a structured dialogue loop used to develop and align strategic targets across an organization. In Hoshin Kanri, top leaders share policy goals and yearly objectives with middle managers and teams, who examine them, raise concerns, propose refinements, and then pass updated targets back up. This back-and-forth continues until everyone understands and commits to the same plan, and the targets reflect reality, capabilities, and resources. That iterative exchange is what ties long-range strategy to day-to-day actions, ensuring alignment from top to front line. Personal goal setting is individual and lacks the formal cascading dialogue that creates organizational alignment. CI planning and Kaizen focus on ongoing improvements at various levels, but catchball as a formal, cross-level conversation is a hallmark of Hoshin Kanri’s policy deployment.