
46 • Value Analysis and Engineering Reengineered
problems we face in organizations, such as defects, mistakes, delays, and
waste, represent a set of interrelated components in broader and more
complex systems. (d) Because the focus on a silo approach of utilizing Six
Sigma, Lean inking, Kaizen, and so on sub-optimizes the benets of
these value-improvement methodologies and undermines their impact on
the rest of the system. (e) Because one lesson that nature teaches us is that
everything in the world is connected to other things.
is concept is further corroborated by W. Edwards Deming’s theory
of profound knowledge, a management philosoph ...