Build a continuous improvement routine around value stream mapping that survives busy periods.
Designing Value Stream Maps to Improve Process Efficiency
An applied course in value stream mapping built around the decisions practitioners actually face.
📍 Tunis🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Inspection catches problems in value stream mapping; it does not prevent them. Improvement in the quality and productivity management capability that is not measured tends to be reversed quietly. The programme uses small-group work so that each participant's treatment of the wider quality and productivity management agenda is examined, not just described. The version of value stream mapping described in the manual and the version practised on the floor tend to diverge over time. It concentrates on the parts of this strand of quality and productivity management that determine outcomes and treats the rest proportionately. Participants gain a clear basis for measuring what the quality and productivity management capability has actually achieved. It is appropriate for those preparing to take on wider responsibility for value stream mapping. Applied research in quality and productivity management consistently shows that early structure around this part of quality and productivity management reduces downstream rework. The final session converts the week's work on the quality and productivity management discipline into commitments with owners and dates.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Link improvement in value stream mapping to a financial outcome leadership recognises.
Establish supplier quality requirements affecting value stream mapping.
Measure productivity in value stream mapping without incentivising the wrong behaviour.
Anticipate the objections that value stream mapping will attract internally and answer them in advance.
Prepare a short, evidence-based briefing on value stream mapping for senior management.
Distinguish the parts of value stream mapping that must be standardised from those that require judgement.
Who Should Attend
Process and industrial engineers redesigning value stream mapping.
Inspection and testing staff verifying value stream mapping.
Business partners who must understand value stream mapping well enough to challenge it.
Supplier quality engineers assessing inputs to value stream mapping.
Those responsible for briefing external stakeholders on value stream mapping.
Health, safety and environmental staff whose systems integrate with value stream mapping.
Course Modules
Value stream mapping: mapping the process as actually performed
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The decisions in value stream mapping that cannot be delegated
- Set out how exceptions to value stream mapping are requested and approved.
- Name a single owner for each element of value stream mapping.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of value stream mapping current.
- Anticipate the objections value stream mapping will raise and prepare the answers.
Session 2Sampling value stream mapping on evidence rather than convention
- Assemble certification evidence for value stream mapping as work proceeds, not before the audit.
- Write standard work for value stream mapping with the people who perform it.
- Identify where judgement in value stream mapping is legitimate and where it is not.
- Train the team handling value stream mapping in the problem-solving method being used.
Value stream mapping: structured problem solving and root cause
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Control plans for value stream mapping that catch problems early
- Compare the cost of value stream mapping with the cost of its absence.
- Map the process behind value stream mapping by walking it, not by describing it.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about value stream mapping.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates value stream mapping is under control.
Session 2Auditing value stream mapping to improve it, not to pass
- Map the handovers in value stream mapping between functions and secure them.
- Verify that improvements to value stream mapping held six months later.
- Build a control plan for value stream mapping identifying what is checked, when and by whom.
- Identify non-value-adding steps in value stream mapping and remove them.
Value stream mapping: defining quality in measurable terms
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The cost of value stream mapping and how to present it
- Calculate the cost of poor quality attributable to value stream mapping.
- Apply structured root cause analysis to the top defect in value stream mapping.
- Set the review cadence that sustains gains in value stream mapping.
- Benchmark value stream mapping against a comparable operation and record the gap.
Session 2Mapping value stream mapping as it is done, not as it is written
- Define supplier quality requirements affecting inputs to value stream mapping.
- Set escalation thresholds for value stream mapping that work out of hours.
- Identify the few causes responsible for most defects in value stream mapping.
- Estimate the resource value stream mapping requires to run as designed.
Value stream mapping: benchmarking and continual improvement
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Where value stream mapping typically breaks, and why
- Build the internal briefing that explains value stream mapping to those affected.
- Design the internal audit schedule covering value stream mapping.
- Remove steps in value stream mapping that add effort without adding assurance.
- Draft the minimum viable control plan for value stream mapping.
Session 2Standard work for value stream mapping without deskilling it
- Measure current variation in value stream mapping before attempting improvement.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around value stream mapping are understood.
- Arrange the handover of value stream mapping so capability survives staff changes.
- Set sampling for value stream mapping on statistical grounds, not on habit.
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USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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At least 3 people
USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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