Value Stream Mapping & Process Diagnostics

Practical tools and diagnostics to map end-to-end processes, expose handoffs, cycle time, delays and waste, and prioritize improvements.


Playbook

Value Stream Mapping Quickstart

A practical half-day playbook to map end-to-end value streams, expose handoffs and delays, and convert findings into prioritized, owner-led experiments that reduce cycle time and increase customer value.

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Checklist

Operational Friction & Waste Audit Checklist

A practical, facilitator-friendly checklist with scoring, data capture guidance, and ready-to-run quick experiments to reveal operational friction, prioritize opportunities, and seed measurable discovery work.

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Audit Template

Operational Waste & Friction Audit (Interactive)

An interactive, savable audit form to map processes, capture evidence, estimate impact, design time‑boxed micro‑experiments, and prioritize actions. Designed to be completed on-site with frontline contributors and stored for later comparison, dashboards, and iterative learning.

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Worksheet

Value Stream Mapping Worksheet

Interactive worksheet to map an end-to-end value stream, collect measured times and counts, reveal handoffs and waits, quantify WIP and defects, check map quality, and plan prioritized experiments with owners and follow-up.

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Audit Template

Operational Waste & Friction Audit Template

Interactive audit template to capture, size, prioritize, and convert sources of operational waste into measurable discovery experiments. Collect structured findings, estimate opportunity size, and produce an executive summary ready for stakeholders.

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Tool

Value Stream Mapping Template & Facilitator Notes

A ready-to-run VSM toolkit: printable mapping canvas and symbols, a clear data-capture checklist (cycle time, wait time, handoffs, quality), facilitation agenda and scripts, a compact waste-identification worksheet, an example filled map, and a micro-experiment design template that turns discovery into measurable improvements.

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Template

Operational Waste Audit Template

A practical, structured operational audit template that helps you map processes, capture handoffs and delays, classify waste, size opportunity value, and design quick micro-experiments to test fixes.

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