The home of Matsuda Mulville Thinking
To simplify processes by continuously increasing value and eradicating waste through ‘value streams’ (the optimum flow of goods and services) that run horizontally across organisations
Events from the past few years teach businesses not to predict anything with certainty; established plans and known models are susceptible to unexpected change. Today’s entrepreneur avoids learning backwards; repeating past triumphs no longer guarantees future success. As established commercial pillars collapse, the 21st century …
Service levels decline, waste replaces value, operational costs increase, and productivity is suboptimal when organisations lacks adaptive leadership, performance improvement or operational-level agreements. Workforces dissolve into loose, shapeless divisions without the glue that forms colleagues and teams into effective, lean value-adding streams. Agreements are often …
Dinosaurs have a voracious appetite — for income, for turnover, for profits. Dinosaurs start huge and get bigger: mega-states, conglomerates, multinationals. Dinosaurs are aggressive, with a strategy that consumes everything standing in their way. Rhinoceroses are tough. But a tough stance is generally inflexible and …
