1. A system to facilitate operationalizing process excellence, the system comprising: management by fact (MBF) activities; a plurality of lean tools, at least some of which are disposed to accept input from the MBF activities; financial analysis produced at least in part by the lean tools, the financial analysis including a business case, hard costs, and predictive impacts linked to primary metrics; and project execution linked to the MBF activities so that a continuous improvement productivity loop is formed.