About Key indicators and approaches about excellence.

Sergio, You're saying the same thing as I am but a little differently. Strategy is the overarching layer that drives tactics. Tactics drive execution.

If tactics don't follow strategy, then they tend to be incoherent and conflicting. When I refer to top-down, it implies that first we first identify the qualities of a good solution, then we look at how the constituent pieces and approaches best support that purpose.

While the tactics and execution need to support the strategy from the bottom up, the strategy itself defines the overarching solution plan that dictates the tactics used. It is the difference between assembling a team that is highly skilled in solving the specific type of problem at hand, and assembling a team of highly skilled people but with skills that in no way relate to the given problem.