Enabling business transformations
Throughout this book, you have been told that VSM is an approach to making Lean improvements. Moreover, you have learned that Lean improvements often require more significant investments than those that can be approved and authorized at the small Agile team level. But the outcomes and benefits of Lean transformations are much greater too.
VSM is the transformative process of delivering business value across the organization. And it is in that context that organizations need to evaluate their investments in VSM initiatives and tools. This section will explore some of the applications that help executives justify the strategic investments in VSM tools and processes.
Providing metrics to show business value
If you did not skip Chapter 4, Defining Value Stream Management, you should already understand the importance of capturing relevant metrics to improve value delivery. Modern VSM tools make it much easier to capture snapshots of data in real...