Hoshin Kanri

Turn Your Annual Strategy Into Daily Action

G2, Capterra and GartnerRated 4.7/5 by 500+ leaders

Profit.co connects your vision to every team through X-Matrix planning, Catchball dialogue, and PDCA cycles in one platform.

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Profit.co Hoshin Kanri X-Matrix dashboard

Trusted by 1,500+ Organizations worldwide

Trusted by 1,500+ organizations worldwide
G2 Fall 2026 awards: Leader Enterprise, Leader, Regional Leader Middle East & Africa, High Performer Enterprise, Easiest Admin Enterprise, Momentum Leader

Problems we solve

Strategy gets lost somewhere between planning and actual execution

Most organizations write good strategy but rarely translate it into work people actually do.

  • 01

    Annual priorities never reach frontline teams

    Leadership agrees the plan, then the people doing the work never hear what changed.

  • 02

    Goals handed down with no team buy-in

    Targets arrive fully formed, so the teams expected to hit them feel no ownership.

  • 03

    No structured cycle to review and adjust

    Plans get set once a year, then nobody revisits them until the next planning season.

  • 04

    Strategy and OKRs tracked in separate tools

    Most tools hold the strategy in one place and daily goals in another, so they drift apart.

Built for your role

One Hoshin Kanri Tool, Built Around How Each Role Works

The same live scorecard, tailored to what each role needs to decide next.

CEO / Executive Sponsor

See the Whole Strategy on a Single Page

For the CEO / Executive Sponsor, breakthrough goals can’t get lost in daily work.

Bowler Chart

Track targets vs actuals each period.

Breakthrough Goals

Split high-stakes objectives from routine improvement.

Progress Reporting

Reports built from live data.

Core capabilities

The Hoshin Kanri Tool That Bridges Vision to Execution

Built for strategy and operations teams who need one place to cascade goals, connect Hoshin Kanri to their OKR management, and track continuous improvement.

X-Matrix

See your entire strategy on one page

Link vision, annual objectives, improvement priorities, and KPIs in one view. Nothing drifts when every connection is visible.

  • Goals split: breakthrough vs improvement
  • Objectives mapped to every KPI
  • Every initiative owned and targeted clearly
Hoshin Kanri X-Matrix linking vision, objectives, priorities, and KPIs

Catchball

Turn planning into a two-way conversation

Leaders set direction and teams refine it. Catchball captures every exchange so commitments are real, not inherited.

  • Every level joins the conversation
  • Disagreements resolved before committing
  • Goals teams actually agreed to
Catchball dialogue between leaders and teams refining shared goals

PDCA Cycle

Make continuous improvement part of every quarter

Plan, Do, Check, Act runs on a structured cadence inside Profit.co. Strategy stays current because adjustment is built into the process.

  • Huddles every month and quarter
  • Blockers cleared and plans updated
  • Every cycle tracked to an owner
PDCA cycle board tracking Plan, Do, Check, Act across the quarter

Complete feature set

What Comes With Profit.co Hoshin Kanri

One place for every Hoshin Kanri practice, from X-Matrix to PDCA, from vision to frontline execution.

  • X-Matrix Planning

    Links vision, objectives, projects, and KPIs in one view

  • Catchball Dialogue

    Structured two-way planning conversations between leaders and teams

  • PDCA Cycle

    Built-in Plan-Do-Check-Act cadence that keeps improvement systematic

  • Goal Cascade

    Flows strategy from company level down to individual contributors

  • Annual Priorities

    Translates multi-year breakthrough objectives into measurable annual goals

  • Breakthrough Goals

    Separates high-stakes breakthrough objectives from routine improvement work

  • Ownership Assignment

    Assigns a named owner to every goal, initiative, and KPI

  • Review Huddles

    Monthly and quarterly structured reviews to assess and realign

  • KPI Tracking

    Monitors progress against every key performance indicator in real time

  • Improvement Tracking

    Tracks annual improvement objectives in a dedicated view

  • Progress Reporting

    Generates strategy execution reports from live data automatically

  • Cross-Team Alignment

    Connects department initiatives to the same organizational priorities

  • Strategy Prioritization

    Scores and ranks initiatives by direct impact on breakthrough goals

  • Initiative Linking

    Ties every team initiative directly to a company-level objective

  • Closed-Loop Accountability

    Keeps ownership, measures, and follow-through in one place

Customer stories

The results speak for themselves

Rated 4.7 out of 5 on G2, Capterra and Gartner

Rated 4.7/5 by 500+ Leaders

After implementing Profit.co, our employee participation in goal setting jumped from 60% to 80%, and review cycles became much faster.

Suganya R.

One of the significant benefits we found was reduced time spent on reviews — 75% reduction of time spent in reviews for executives.

Gerardo Haro

Profit.co gave our teams a shared language for strategy — priorities stay visible, and execution finally matches the plan.

Hasna Beeran

We accomplished nearly 90% of our high-level objectives that we set out at the beginning of the year.

Dr. Thomas Troeger

With Profit.co, strategy reviews stopped being slide decks — we see live progress and act on risks in the same week.

Rakshit Choudhary

OKRs in Profit.co helped us connect product delivery to company outcomes — everyone knows what winning looks like.

Prakash Nair

After implementing Profit.co, our employee participation in goal setting jumped from 60% to 80%, and review cycles became much faster.

Suganya R.

One of the significant benefits we found was reduced time spent on reviews — 75% reduction of time spent in reviews for executives.

Gerardo Haro

Profit.co gave our teams a shared language for strategy — priorities stay visible, and execution finally matches the plan.

Hasna Beeran

We accomplished nearly 90% of our high-level objectives that we set out at the beginning of the year.

Dr. Thomas Troeger

With Profit.co, strategy reviews stopped being slide decks — we see live progress and act on risks in the same week.

Rakshit Choudhary

OKRs in Profit.co helped us connect product delivery to company outcomes — everyone knows what winning looks like.

Prakash Nair

We finally have one place where goals, projects, and performance stay aligned — no more chasing updates across tools.

Henry Braithwaite

Profit.co made cross-team priorities transparent — we ship what matters and drop the noise with confidence.

Rahul Daswani

Just in the last year, tracking work in Profit.co made it easy to prove ROI and scale OKRs across the company.

Juan Felipe Arjona

Weekly check-ins in Profit.co keep every squad honest about progress — blockers surface early, not at quarter end.

Ankita Roy

Leaders now have clear, real-time visibility into progress — strategy stopped living in disconnected spreadsheets.

Jose Duvan V.

Profit.co helped us turn annual plans into weekly execution — teams know the score and move with clarity.

Kari Montes

We finally have one place where goals, projects, and performance stay aligned — no more chasing updates across tools.

Henry Braithwaite

Profit.co made cross-team priorities transparent — we ship what matters and drop the noise with confidence.

Rahul Daswani

Just in the last year, tracking work in Profit.co made it easy to prove ROI and scale OKRs across the company.

Juan Felipe Arjona

Weekly check-ins in Profit.co keep every squad honest about progress — blockers surface early, not at quarter end.

Ankita Roy

Leaders now have clear, real-time visibility into progress — strategy stopped living in disconnected spreadsheets.

Jose Duvan V.

Profit.co helped us turn annual plans into weekly execution — teams know the score and move with clarity.

Kari Montes

Integrations ecosystem

Connects to the tools
your teams already use

100+ native integrations that keep your data in sync — so teams check in, update progress, and stay aligned without switching apps.

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Enterprise Grade Security

Keep your company’s data secure and compliant with industry-leading security standards and certifications.

  • SOC 2 certified

    SOC 2 TYPE II

  • ISO 27001 certified

    ISO 27001

  • GDPR compliant

    GDPR

  • HIPAA compliant

    HIPAA

FAQ

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Profit.co’s Hoshin Kanri module is a structured strategy execution tool that connects long-term vision to annual priorities using the X-Matrix, Catchball, and PDCA cycle. Each annual objective on the X-Matrix links directly to live OKRs, so teams see how their daily work moves the breakthrough goals forward.

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