Value Stream Mapping, Mike Osterling
Value Stream Mapping, Mike Osterling
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Value Stream Mapping
How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation

Author: Mike Osterling, Karen Martin

Narrator: TBD

Unabridged: 4 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/16/2013


Synopsis

Winner of The Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award!

Align your leadership team to deliver the highest possible value to your customers

Too many organizations today suffer from silo-centric behavior and intra-organizational conflict. Yet most don't understand what's holding them back from achieving outstanding performance.

Value stream mapping--an essential but underusedmethodology--is a proven approach to help you visualize and resolve disconnects, redundancies, and gaps in your value delivery system. More than merely a tool to eliminateoperational waste, value stream mapping is a highly effective means to transform leadership thinking, define strategy and priorities, and create customer-centric work flow.

In this detailed guide, business performance improvement experts Karen Martin and Mike Osterling present a practical way to deeply understand how work gets done--in any environment--and how to design improvedwork systems.

You'll learn how to:

Prepare and engage your leadership team in the transformation process

Gain a deep understanding about your current work systems and the related barriers to delivering value

Design a future state that enables outstanding performance on all fronts

Adopt the new design and lay the foundation for continued improvement

Whether you are a novice, an experienced improvement practitioner, or a leader, Value Stream Mapping will help you design and operate your business more effectively. And if your organization already uses value stream mapping, this book will help you improve yourtransformation efforts.

In today's rapid-fire business environment, there are too many problems to be solved and too many opportunities to be leveraged to operate without a highly effective means for accomplishing the important work to be done.Value stream mapping is the missing link in business management and, properly executed, has the power to address many business woes.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Davide on August 16, 2018

True, there are not many books about value stream mapping out there and the topic itself tends to be regarded as obscure by many, so this is a good start. There are lots of insights on how to conduct a mapping activity in terms of contents, questions and planning, but not much guidance in how to act......more

Goodreads review by Chris on May 08, 2017

If you dislike those books that tell you what to do in principle but don't tell you how to do it, this book is for you. It goes into explicit and exquisite detail, with examples in the appendices. It's the sort of book for those who have an efficiency problem in their organisation and have the autho......more

Goodreads review by Bob on October 09, 2014

Okay I'll admit it, it's been a long time since I really thought about value stream mapping. Learning to See was one of the first books I read when I started my lean journey. I remember how excited I was learning about the current state and at the aha moment when developing the future state. Value St......more