Value Stream Mapping Information & Resources

 Value Stream Mapping - A Roadmap to Your Operations Digital Twin 

Here is a 1 hour seminar done with VSOptima for direct application of Jack's value stream mapping approach as the roadmap for, and then built in the VSOptima digital twin platform 

https://youtu.be/Gh_ns3VpWyQ

Value Streams + Digital Twins 4 Operational Strategy 

Here's a quick look at how value streams and digital twins come together to reimagine, and more importantly enable Operational Strategy in a very new and dynamic way:

https://youtu.be/JSmNRr7PaJY

Here are tools that you can use to create, document, and maintain your value stream maps:

Lucid Chart -  https://lucidchart.com/ 

Creately -  https://creately.com/ 

These are kind of like wire-frames in that they are great for straw-map or concept proposal with good editing and sharing capabilities. 

Better - VSOptima.com is a value stream oriented digital twin operations platform that has amazing capabilities, most notable may be the simulation / projection capability.  

(see it in action in the video from the seminar above)

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