Virtual Okaloa Flowlab simulation – Value Stream
When you look at how work flows through an organization, what you see is often the time when people in teams are actively working on it. Mostly neglected are the wait states. They naturally appear in all organizations around the world when more than one team is working on the same work, or if external dependencies like vendors or agencies are involved. How can you identify them, and how can teams learn to reduce the wait time to deliver quicker and more reliably to their customers, co-operate better and hence improve their team and organizational culture?
Topic: Value Stream
Many organizations struggle with the phenomena: performance versus cost versus quality and time pressure. Trying to validate all assumptions upfront will in the end lead to bad quality because at a certain point you will be faced with pressure to deliver and then suddenly the item is rushed through the system. Not agreeing on requirements might lead to high risk of failure further in the value stream. But how to find turning point, moment that you know you are over assessing. The urge to get everything cleared out makes that in the end we feel time pressure and we deliver bad quality. In this simulation participants experience the end-to-end flow along a value creation process, from customer request to delivery to the customer. It addresses dealing with assumptions of the upstream, hand-offs and loopbacks.
Learning objectives and benefits
- During and after the simulation definite wow-moments across teams on more collaborative ways of working
- After the simulation better communication and collaboration across teams
- Faster and more reliable delivery of requests to the customer
- Better quality across work, also long-term
- Cost savings because of shorter lead times (time from starting to finishing work) and higher throughput across teams
- Individuals will be able to see the bigger picture of the work, work for a purpose, take personal pride across the organisation and improve the organisational culture
Course format
4 hours simulation, including group discussion, real life simulation and debrief (virtual version only).
Note on times
- The course will be run out of New Zealand.
- 4-5 hours, 8-12am CEST, 6-10pm NZST.
Number of participants: 3 to max. 10
You can book the training as an in-house measure or as a virtual training. If more than two people are interested, we can also schedule an open training according to your wishes. Ask about the possibilities under the registration below.
Training languages: English, German, French and Italian.
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