What is a Value Stream Network?

This post will discuss a critical and often unseen aspect of value stream management, the Value Stream Network.

Organizations are confronted with many challenges that impede the smooth flow of work from ideation to customer delivery. The dynamic…

The crucial need for an Enterprise Value Stream Architect (EVSA)

The growing significance of value stream management in business

To build the capabilities required to sustain agility, there is a growing significance of value stream management in business…

Is Platform Engineering a Value Stream?

In this, the fourth of a series of blog posts from the Value Stream Management Consortium, our experts weigh in on, “Is THIS a value stream?” This time, we’re looking at Platform Engineering.

Hoshin What? Strategy Deployment and VSM

“What I love is when an organization embraces strategy deployment, also known as Hoshin Kanri, also known as policy deployment as its annual planning cycle methodology because that’s what drives all improvement if you follow that philosophy. And so, you…

VSM in Action — Netflix’s Culture Exemplified

Nothing can teach us more about Value Stream Management than the experiences of real-world practitioners so we are delighted to be able to share with you Netflix’s VSM story in partnership with IDC.

Is Onboarding a Value Stream?

In this, the fifth of a series of blog posts from the Value Stream Management Consortium, our experts weigh in on, “Is THIS a value stream?” This time, we’re looking at Onboarding.

Principles of Value Stream Identification

“A value stream is the end-to-end set of activities that delivers particular results for a given customer (external or internal)” 
- James Martin, 1995