Facilitation method

Value Stream Mapping

A one-day workshop where your teams map how work really moves from request to value, see where it waits, and leave with a measured target and a 90-day plan.

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A value stream map on brown paper covered in yellow, pink, and blue sticky notes — A team’s map from a one-day workshop at a Banff Springs retreat

Value Stream Mapping

Watch the runners, not the baton.

A paper airplane factory

The day, drawn as a value stream

Learn Lean by playing

Map today’s flow

Measure efficiency

Find the waste

Design improvements

Set the target

Five Lean principles

Define valuefrom the customer’s perspective

Map the value streamfrom beginning to end

Create flowby eliminating waste and delays

Pull from demandproduce only what is needed

Seek perfectionthrough continuous improvement

See it through your customer’s eyes

The eight wastes spell DOWNTIME

Process efficiency

What happens when teams see the whole

About 70 people mapped five value streams in one day

A one-day War on Waste

Is it the right tool?

Value stream mapping fits when

Choose another approach when

One day, start to finish

What you’ll leave with

A current-state map

A process efficiency baseline

Waste and improvement ideas

A target and a future state

A 90-day plan with owners

Your maps and materials

Questions we often hear

Ready to watch the whole relay?