#Value-Chain

The value chain is the corporate ritual of passing raw materials through a gauntlet of departments to conjure the illusion of added value. Each link suffers the curse of cost, fragmenting endlessly until outcomes vanish from sight. Successes become corporate mythology, while failures are buried through rounds of blame-shifting. The much-vaunted optimization is often nothing more than a shell game of rebranding one department’s work as another’s achievement.