The De Villiers Company
The world population has surpassed the 8 billion mark, and humankind faces a range of gigantic challenges.
Businesses and governments should embrace systematic, structured, scientific, and continual improvement to overcome these challenges holistically.
The overall objectives of systemic improvement by De Villiers Co are as follows:
- Excellence of System & Product/Service
- Low-cost System & Product/Service
- Availability of Product/Service
- Value-for-Money Product/Service
- Competitiveness of System/Product/Service
- Availability of Service/Product
- Affordability of Service/Product
- Standard of Service/Product
- Satisfaction of Consumer/User
De Villiers Co has developed breakthrough, world-first tools in the metatech space that can enable systemic improvement across business sectors and government tiers. These tools, supporting a powerful Systemic Improvement System (SIS), are applied appropriately in the broad areas below to achieve systemic improvement:
- Improvement of projects (delivering systems and processes)
- Improvement of operations (delivering products and services)
Proiektus®: A breakthrough, integrated project system based on a stratified, multi-disciplinary meta-model.
SEPFOR: A modern, formalized systems engineering process following an Integrated Total System (ITS) approach.
UPM: A world-class, unified project management methodology and process model offering adaptability for economic sectors and project scenarios.
SP&RM®: A novel, unique graphical modelling tool for processes, systems, item flows, etc. that is uncomplicated, powerful, and universally applicable.
Magnisity®: A world-first invention that measures all aspects of operational performance and cost performance in an integrated manner.
Eudunamity®: A world-first invention enabling computation of techno-economic performance potentiality of initial solutions and of improvement solutions. This tool also includes a definitive improvement process model with strong emphasis on innovation.
The direct objective throughout is improvement of producer (provider) techno-economic performance – focusing on productiveness, effectiveness, efficiency, cost, as well as other composite performance characteristics such as cost-efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and unit cost.
The business model of De Villiers Co provides for extensive participation by client personnel during an intervention, leaving the client with the competence and tools to continue with new improvement efforts after the intervention.
The SIS caters for a wide spectrum of scenarios, from technology-intensive new projects to simple procedural improvements during operations.