Waste identification and elimination is a life’s work, but collate where your customer sees the value into a single visualisation of your end-to-end process, and you’ll have an extremely powerful tool to help you get started.
Join PMI Director Consultant Barry Byrne, self-confessed super fan of the Value Stream Map, as he talks about the benefits of being able to see how your work works across functions to deliver exactly what your customer is looking for. But, he asks, where in our business system is the health of those cross-functional relationships nurtured - who's the guardian of those interdependencies?
Ready to find the waste in your system? Here are more helpful resources on Value Stream Mapping.
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