My struggle at the Frontline of Japanese Enterprise IT - MUDA

Part I. How Japan’s enterprise IT has failed to learn from its most competitive industry–manufacturing

In a culture of excess communications and consensus, activity cost for an industry that, by nature, necessitates tackling high uncertainty, is especially acute. I believe that such an inefficient practice is, in fact, hurting the national competitiveness of Japan. Moreover, when applying the Toyota manufacturing principles to classify enterprise IT activities, one could easily conclude that the majority fall into the category of 'Nonvalue- added'.

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