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Automated Value Stream Maps

9 May 2020 by Robert Falkowitz Leave a Comment

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An automated value stream map is an advanced example of how information visualizations may be integrated into service system management tools.

Filed Under: Visualization Tagged With: automated value stream map, availability, batch size, capacity use, changeover time, cycle time, defect rate, information flow, inventory size, lean management, maintenance time, materials flow, queue size, value added work, value stream, value stream map, value stream phase, waste

Lean configuration management: a conundrum

2 June 2017 by Robert Falkowitz Leave a Comment

How does a purely internal activity like configuration ma­nage­ment add value to customers? Would a customer gladly pay you for your configuration ma­nage­ment ac­ti­vi­ties? Keeping your con­fi­gu­rations under control is hardly value adding in the same way as, for example, increasing the utility of a service. And yet, good configuration management under­pins virtually all service […]

Filed Under: Configuration management Tagged With: added value, aviation industry, change control, class of service, CMDB, configuration control, intangible, kanban, lean management, non-added value, poka yoke, value stream, waste

A Value Stream for Service Management

1 July 2015 by Robert Falkowitz 9 Comments

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One of the main benefits of a lean/kanban approach to IT is the simplification of processes expressed in the value stream of each team. But IT teams are sometimes indoctrinated with process frameworks coming from approaches such as COBIT® or ITIL®. They may be at a loss to understand how a single value stream can […]

Filed Under: Kanban Tagged With: cross-functional teams, kamishibai board, kanban, kanban board, lean management, operational tasks, TPM board, value stream

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