Value Stream Mapping - Karen Martin and Mike Osterling

CoLab Book Club - February 2024

Our #CoLabBookClub kicked off 2024 discussing "Value Stream Mapping" by Karen Martin and Mike Osterling. Members of the group have some experience using Value Stream Mapping and agree (some passionately!) that it's an invaluable technique for creating visibility and a shared understanding across organisations.

Overview

The book is a practical guide for anyone looking to streamline processes, eliminate waste, and create more value for customers.

Our Key Takeaways

✔️ We appreciated reading a comprehensive guide to value stream mapping. Look no further!

✔️ We felt that the book provided lots of sound techniques that could be adapted and scaled for use.

✔️ We agreed it could be tricky to get leadership buy-in to use the technique initially but that it would be worth the effort.

✔️ We enjoyed reading the different case studies and real-world examples that illustrated the different concepts and techniques.

✔️ We liked the emphasis on ensuring collaboration, data-driven decision-making, and commitment to continuous improvement.

Who is it For?

The book is for leaders, product owners and anyone involved in transformation and continuous improvement.

Thank you!

 Thank you Karen Martin and Mike Osterling for creating such a valuable resource for us all.

This month we welcomed Elisabeth Stiller as our newest book clubber - great to have you in the group.

Thank you Allan Atkinson, Alfred Enslin, Ceedee Doyle, Elisabeth Stiller, Mahesh Krshnan (host), Pete Tansey, Peter Bink and Toni Wilson for the great conversation!

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