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Align Strategy with Tactics

Maximize the Flow of Value-Added Work

Reduce Non-Value Added Waste

Monitor, Manage and Motivate

 

Maximize the Flow of Value-Added Information

"It takes too long to get something done.  We appear to spend more time fixing errors than anything else."

It's easy to spot an ineffective organization.  Compare the total the amount of time information just sits waiting for someone to touch it.  In an ineffective organization the amount of time information waits can be 8 to 10 times the amount of time it is being used.  AGILEAN shows how value stream maps can be used as visual models for streamlining the continuous flow of information.

"Our customers and suppliers say we are too hard to do business with."

Products and services, customers, employees, and regions all have competing requirements.  Business friction builds up when the flow of information is not sufficiently aligned with each.  Too much business friction and you begin to feel the heat.  AGILEAN shows you how value stream maps can spot areas of business friction and help keep them under control.

"Our business has changed, so we must change how we do business."

Most organizations lack the visibility into how value-added information is created.  This leads to an out-of-sight-out-of-mind problem where the flow of information rarely forms by plan, but by the continuous patching of other patches.  The result is spaghetti information flows.  When it's time to change it's impossible to predict where something might break.  AGILEAN shows organizations how to use value stream mapping to sort out spaghetti information flows and develop the agility to change their course as strategies dictate.

 

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