Chapter 5
Value Stream Maps: The Amazing Tool (Critical to Your Success)
What a Value Stream Map Is and Why You Need It
The value stream map (VSM) is critical to your success at driving waste out of your company. Please take the time to read and truly understand this chapter; it will be of great benefit later in your Lean journey.
Like all journeys, we start at the beginning and end at our destination. Similar to driving from Minneapolis to Dallas, we would use a map to find the appropriate roads to travel and which direction to go; we might ...
