What is Value Stream Mapping and Why You Should Learn It.

This video explains what value stream mapping is, and why you should learn the technique. Value stream mapping was developed by Toyota and is known internally as Materials and Information Flow Analysis. 🔗 🔗 🔗 Links 🔗 🔗 🔗 Buy The Flow System book! Hardback book on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1680400584/ Kindle Edition - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08NXPGMSC/ Meet with Nigel - BookNigel.com Subscribe to this Channel - FollowNigel.com Flow System Training - getflowtrained.com Flow Guide - flowguides.org 🦋🦋🦋 Social Media 🦋🦋🦋 Nigel on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/nigelthurlow/ Nigel on Twitter - twitter.com/NigelThurlow Bookmarks Introduction & the Real Problem - 0:00 Do you know how you do what you do? - 00:46 Work as Imagined vs Work as Done - 01:32 Silos and Islands - 02:19 Value Stream Definiton - 02:50 Where VSM comes from - 03:24 Information Flow - 03:47 The key purpose - 04:47 Avoid Sub-Optimization - 05:02 Theory of Constraints and Bottlenecks - 05:40 Increase Output by 20% - 06:44