Results are presented from a pre-study discussing significant bricks needed to be considered when designing a long-term strategy for production systems based upon Lean production. A conclusion is that when developing a Lean organization it has to be managed as a complex evolving system (CES). Appropriate aspects suggested in a forth-coming survey within Swedish automotive industry, is to investigate if there is a common description of the Lean concept which is aligned with own visions and basic values, focus a collage of interactive or isolated bricks, and how learning, developing people, complexity issues and contextual factors are regarded.