Sep 28, 2022 2:50 PM
Replying to Keith Novak
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One step I would recommend is mapping your value stream. By documenting the current state, you have a better perspective of the elements involved, the interactions between them, and the upstream and downstream processes tying them together.
I would not suggest trying to change everything at once. Use tools such as Theory of Constraints to identify your major obstacles. Then you can propose changes to remove those obstacles, analyze the potential impacts on paper first using the VSMs and test the changes on small controllable scales first to see if they work. Then when you find improvements, you can document them in a way that demonstrates how the improvement affects the bigger picture instead of just an individual process step.
