Description
| Product ID: | 9780071828918 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation |
| Authors: | Author: Karen Martin, Mike Osterling |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Production and quality control management, Production & quality control management |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Value stream mapping - an essential but underused methodology - is a proven approach to help you visualize and resolve disconnects, redundancies, and gaps in your value delivery system. In this detailed guide, the authors present a practical way to deeply understand how work gets done - in any environment - and how to design improved work systems. Winner of The Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award!Align your leadership team to deliver the highest possible value to your customersToo 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:
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. |
| Imprint Name: | McGraw-Hill Professional |
| Publisher Name: | McGraw-Hill Education - Europe |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-01-16 |
