Basically Hoshin Kanri is a method to integrate an entire organization’s daily activities with its long term goals. It is a continual process of checking to make sure that what is done each day reflects the intentions, the targets, the vision of company has agreed to pursue.
4 major steps in Hoshin Kanri practicing: Setting, Deployment, Implementation and Review.
The major purpose of Management Quality Audits is to ensure organization daily activities align with what they had documented as ISO principle: Do what we documented, document what we do. This will help in the review step in Hoshin Kanri practice.