LSS 017 | Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work & Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation with Karen Martin
Summary: In this episode, I'm joined by one of the most passionate lean thinkers I've ever met - Karen Martin. During this podcast Karen and I explore the topic of Value Stream Mapping. Specifically, Karen and I have an excellent discussion related to the traps many practitioners fall into when working with value stream maps as well as how, and why, this tool is being used by many non manufacturing focused organizations. Karen and Mike Osterling recently published a new book on the topic called Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation. To hear the podcast just press the "Play" button at the top of this post. An MP3 version is also available for download here. In this episode you'll learn: Karen's favorite quote... think W. Edwards Deming! Karen's elevator speech of what a Value Stream Map is including the history of the tool Some of the biggest mistakes people make when working with this tool How Value Stream Mapping is being leveraged in offices and the service sector Karen's spirited response to critics who claim Value Stream Maps actually slow the improvement process down What Karen struggled with the most when she first started down her lean journey The best advice Karen's ever received Karen's favorite personal productivity habits Podcast Resources Right Click to Download this Podcast as an MP3 Full Written Transcript in PDF Format Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation Out of the Crisis The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management (Collins Business Essentials) The Karen Martin Group Register for Karen's Upcoming Webinar Please Subscribe to this Podcast If you enjoyed this podcast please be sure to subscribe on iTunes.  Once youâre a subscriber all new episodes will be downloaded to your iTunes account and smartphone. CLICK HERE to subscribe to the LSS Academy podcast on iTunes. You can also subscribe via Stitcher which is similar to iTunes and is definitely Android friendly. Please Leave Us a Review We'd also be honored if you'd leave us an honest review in iTunes.  This will really help the show grow and reach more people with the good news that is lean and six sigma! To leave a review please follow these steps: Click this link Click the blue button that says "View in iTunes" Log into your iTunes account as needed Click "Ratings and Reviews" which you'll find in gray text towards the top of the page Click "Write a Review" button It may take up to 24 hours for your review to appear. Full Transcript Full Written Transcript in PDF Format Announcer: Welcome to episode 17 of the LSS Academy Podcast.[music] Announcer: You are now listening to the LSS Academy Podcast, the show that's spreading the good news that is Lean and Six Sigma. Now, here's your host, Ron Pereira. Ron Pereira: Hey there, welcome to another edition of the LSS Academy Podcast. Thank you so much for listening. Before we get started, I wanted to give a shout out to one of our listeners who recently sent in an email. Mark Reiken, who's from New Zealand, wrote in and commented that he had started listening to the Michael Lombard interview that we just released, on that morning that he sent the email, on his drive in to work. He said that he was quite interested in the whole Toyota Kata topic because one of his colleagues, had just given him Mike Rother's book to read. That's pretty cool. Mark concluded that, he said that we were doing some awesome work, which definitely made my day. The reason that I really love my work with all my being is that I could stand here in Keller, Texas, talk into a microphone or even better into a video camera shooting a video. Minutes later,
