Definitions for "Hoshin"
From the Japanese term Hoshin Kanri, meaning policy deployment or management by policy. Used in this country to refer to a special focus of an organization. One organization refers to Hoshin as a "planning system for implementing total quality management ( TQM)"
a combination of a statement of a strategy (called an objective), and a statement of the means to achieve the strategy, along with a statement of how performance is to be monitored (called a target)