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Align your leadership team to deliver the highest possible value to your customers

Too many organizations today suffer from silo-centric behavior and intra-organizational conflict. Yet most don’t understand what’s holding them back from achieving outstanding performance.

Value stream mapping–an essential but underusedmethodology–is a proven approach to help you visualize and resolve disconnects, redundancies, and gaps in your value delivery system. More than merely a tool to eliminateoperational waste, value stream mapping is a highly effective means to transform leadership thinking, define strategy and priorities, and create customer-centric work flow.

In this detailed guide, business performance improvement experts Karen Martin and Mike Osterling present a practical way to deeply understand how work gets done–in any environment–and how to design improvedwork systems.

You’ll learn how to:

• Prepare and engage your leadership team in the transformation process
• Gain a deep understanding about your current work systems and the related barriers to delivering value
• Design a future state that enables outstanding performance on all fronts
• Adopt the new design and lay the foundation for continued improvement

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