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Knowledge Challenge

A friend thinks you can answer this question about Hoshin Kanri

A US-based manufacturer adopts Hoshin Kanri. Their CEO publishes 7 'breakthrough objectives' for the next year, each with quarterly KPIs. The X-Matrix is built in 3 weeks by the corporate strategy team and rolled out to plants. Plant managers are told to 'execute against the Hoshin.' What's the most fundamental mistake?