Define: "Value Stream Mapping" in Business
High risk of unnecessary meetings
"Draw a straight line from 'ticket opened' to 'ticket ignored' and walk out of the room."
A lean-management method for analyzing the current state and designing a future state for a workflow.
What does "Value Stream Mapping" actually mean?
"An excuse to trap 15 engineers in a room to draw abstract shapes explaining a workflow everyone already knows is broken."
"We will kick off the transformation initiative with a comprehensive value stream mapping exercise."
"We spent three days doing value stream mapping just to conclude that the procurement department is the reason we don't have new switches."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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