WHY CREATE A VALUE STREAM ORGANIZATION

This map shows the reasons who lean companies organize their business around value streams not departments. One of the big changes required by most lean companies is to break away from their departmental structure and organize their work around Value Streams. A Value Stream contains all of the tasks and processes required to create value for the customers. These processes all report into a Value Stream Manager who has full control of the sales, production, shipping, pricing, and profitability of the products within his/her value stream. Most lean companies have several value streams within a location and each value stream address a range of products with similar process and production flow.