From the author of "Lean and Performance Driven" comes this strategic guide. A top-down, bottom-up approach at optimizing the focus, process, and structure of an organization. This process-oriented book outlines the fundamental tools for building organizational discipline and the precision of deploying performance-driven initiatives. The strategic guide to lean provides a top-down optimization of the core structures and processes of an organization. Optimizing the structural framework provides big dividends and resolve most of the tactical and operational inefficiencies. Achieving organizational discipline, focus and precision start at the strategic level and require a tactical infrastructure to swiftly respond to dynamic changes in the market arena and enhance operational readiness. Before deploying lean at the operational level, make certain that the strategic and tactical level infrastructure are optimized.