The Nuts and Bolts of Value Stream Assessments

Overview

When executing continuous improvement initiatives, organizations usually know where some of their problems are, but they often struggle with truly identifying a problem and its magnitude. This is where the approach known as an End-to-End Value Stream Assessment is invaluable, providing data-driven guidance on where to focus project efforts.

End-to-End Value Stream Assessments (VSAs) eliminate the ambiguity in an improvement effort by providing a structured approach for opportunity identification, prioritization and selection that is aligned with the company’s overall strategic objectives. This focused approach maximizes a company’s return on investment, leverages existing resources and uses the expertise of knowledgeable professionals to identify opportunities in a systemized fashion.

This online training course is a practitioner’s guide to the “Nuts and Bolts” of an End-to-End Value Stream Assessment, with an emphasis on the application of the VSA to actual processes. We will cover in detail the BMGI nine-step methodology, which combines up to 14 different tools into an approach that will become a central feature of your organization’s improvement strategy.

Attendees of this two-hour session will learn how to:

• Apply a structured approach for evaluating an entire process from start to finish.
• Use various Lean tools to identify opportunities within a value stream.
• Develop a mechanism for prioritizing project opportunities objectively.
• Determine a pipeline of which projects to execute and in what sequence.

Agenda topics:

• What is the End-to-End Value Stream Assessment
• Documenting the current state
• Walking the gemba
• Unpacking your process
• Establishing your priorities
• Chartering future work

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Who should attend

• Performance/operational excellence and quality leaders who are responsible for developing and executing their organization’s improvement strategy
• Operational leaders who have had some form of Lean training and need to know how to get started within their organizations
• Lean and Lean Six Sigma practitioners who are responsible for identifying improvement opportunities and creating improvement plans
• Practitioners who lead kaizen rapid improvement events and value stream mapping sessions

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Instructors

Mark McMurray is a skilled and passionate leader who uses his 14 years of experience on behalf of organizations in multiple sectors, from manufacturing through pure transactional services. Mark works with executives, managers and frontline employees in developing and deploying strategic plans that are transformational yet executable. He is highly proficient in performance excellence program deployment leadership, curriculum development and delivery, project replication, change management and strategy execution. Prior to joining BMGI, he was the general manager of a $4.8 million business center branch and the director of a national multi-business unit performance excellence deployment. A certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, he obtained his Master of Science in Operations Management from Kettering University, and his Bachelor of Science from the U.S. Naval Academy.
 

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