**5.1 Command**

Lean cockpit must be responsible for selection and approval of Lean initiatives are as well considered as projects for an organization. Unless the definition and disciplines of the project are not mandated, these improvement initiatives will go never ending. Lean is a strategic service provided by the corporate improvement groups. Therefore, it is imperative that there must be a protocol for driving a Lean intervention and solution selection, and a structured approach to choosing the project. The project must have a scientifically estimated quantitative business impact upon which outcome of the project may be evaluated. The projects must cover process and product performance parameters independently. The project must cover processes for development and support of the products. Projects must ensure the products and processes are improved and innovated with Lean implementation. The collective nature of achievement of a business objective must be mapped and drafted as part of charter, then project specific expected contribution must be defined. A collective projects catalog may be transformed into a monitoring dashboard. Milestone based verification and validation needs to be performed to control execution of Lean drive.
