We’ve seen many value stream maps (VSM) over the past 20 years, as it has become a common tool. In some companies it’s a first requirement before a lean effort begins. In other companies, value stream ...

Are you living your values? We got to thinking about this question because there are times when the world seems to be so upside down. People feel that their values are being tested. Knowing what ...

Making decisions about social issues, including scientific ones such as climate change and bioengineering, requires values as well as facts. One good way to make such values explicit is to diagram ...

As a new CEO in 2004, Simon Wardley was searching for a framework to inform his strategy decisions. The first part in this series introduced the five factors that matter in competition, identified by ...

Better to be a dog in times of tranquility than a human in times of chaos.” – Feng Menglong, Late Ming Dynasty This is the closest authenticated quote to what conveys its way into common idiom as the ...