The document discusses operational excellence from several perspectives:
- It is defined as a business strategy focused on delivering quality, price, and ease of purchase and service better than competitors.
- Achieving it requires implementing an integrated business execution system with four building blocks: strategy deployment, performance management, process excellence, and high performance work teams.
- Strategy deployment is the process of aligning business strategy with execution, which is often visualized using strategy maps or Hoshin Kanri matrices.