All industries have operations.
All operations have processes.
All successful processes produce value.
Is-Ought Gap Consulting defines and identifies the IS of value and aligns all operations to that value by cutting out waste to establish the OUGHT in profitability. Through applying the Toyota Production System (TPS) and Lean principles for gians in efficiency, we help a company, large or small, bridge the is-ought gap.
"It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone... The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment."
The intrinsic theory holds that the good is inherent in cerain things or actions as such, reguardless of their context and consequences, reguardless of any benefit or injury they may cause to the actors and the subjects involved. It is a theory that devorces the concept of the "good" form the valuer an purpose--claiming that the good is the good in, by, and of itself.
The subjective theory holds that the good bears no relation to the facts of reality, that it is the product of a man's consciousness, created by his feelings, gesires, "intuitions," or whims, and that it is merely an "arbitrary postulate" or an "emotional commitment."
The objective theory holds that the good is neither an attribute of "things in themselves" nor of man's emotional states, but an evaluation of the facts of reality by man's consciousness according to a rational standard of value... The objective theory holds that the good is an aspect of reality in relation to man - and that it must be discovered, not invented, by man. Fundamental to an objective thoery of value is the question: Of value to whom and for what?."