“Whenever there is a product or service for a customer, there is a value stream.The challenge lies in seeing it” hese are the opening words in the publication ‘Learning to See’ where Mike...
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Tag: Value Streams
Value Stream Mapping in a Lean Transformation
We spend a lot of time visiting organisations and looking at work at the workplace. We’ve visited two workplaces recently that led us to conduct some reflection around how well organisations know...
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Starting up, Growing up and Starting over – What the Lean startup and traditional Lean communities can learn from each other
In recent years the concepts described by Daniel T Jones and Jim Womack in Lean Thinking have been adapted and translated into a host of environments. The Lean Startup movement introduced a new wave...
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Lean in Sales – Can Lean be applied to Sales?
Many attempts to implement Lean start by improving processes – mapping value streams in order to highlight waste and attempting to remove it. That’s all well and good but there are...
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Helping Individuals and Organisations Improve through Lean Thinking and Practice
I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself and tell you a little more about what’s new at the Lean Enterprise Academy. Firstly, my name is Darren Walsh and I’ll be taking the...
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