(Factory Strategies Group: Morro Bay, CA) -- Factory Strategies Group has released its new Lean Enterprise Strategy Kit to support the strategic planning efforts at organizations and smaller companies. The kit brings together the best of traditional SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) and PEST (political, economic, sociocultural and technological) strategic planning with the core principles of lean manufacturing and lean enterprise-style hoshin planning and policy deployment.

The Lean Enterprise Strategy Kit includes a series of training presentations, worksheets, tools, and forms to guide the user through the entire strategy planning and execution process. The process begins with the development of a core set of business principles and values, which are then translated into vision and mission statements. A pair of assessments are then performed, including a 40-topic, in-depth lean enterprise assessment and a traditional strategic environment assessment.

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