Adaptive Value Stream Workshop
Aligning business needs to organizational capabilities to optimize value creation.
Price
In-house
Duration
2 Days
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Purpose and Background
Background
Every company delivers value to its customers through its products or services. However, without transparency into how this value is generated and where the inefficiencies lie, businesses face challenges such as high operational costs, unpredictable timelines, and suboptimal solutions. To thrive in today’s fast-paced environment, it’s essential to identify value streams and map business capabilities to understand the key steps in value generation. This transparency is vital for optimizing performance, fostering efficient collaboration between business and IT, and making informed strategic decisions.
The Adaptive Value Stream Workshop Workshop enables participants to gain insights into their organizational processes, aligning capabilities with customer needs for greater business agility and performance.
Purpose
The Adaptive Value Stream Workshop helps organizations gain a clear understanding of how value is generated and delivered to their customers. By mapping value streams and linking them to business capabilities, participants can uncover bottlenecks, optimize workflows, and enhance alignment between business and IT. The workshop focuses on tackling key challenges such as long implementation cycles, high operational costs, and poor customer satisfaction. Through practical exercises and guided discussions, participants will identify actionable measures to streamline operations and improve value creation across their organization
Goals
Identify and visualize key value streams in your organization.
Map business capabilities to specific steps in the value streams.
Uncover inefficiencies and bottlenecks in value delivery.
Align IT and business teams around common goals and priorities.
Develop actionable strategies for optimizing value generation.
Identify the organizational structures for improved governance and decision-making.
What outputs you can expect
A high-level map of your organization’s value streams.
Clear identification of the business capabilities needed to support value creation.
Insights into improving collaboration within the organization and particularly between business and IT.
Concrete recommendations for optimizing value generation.
Actionable strategies for overcoming current organizational challenges and for aligning teams and resources to enhance performance.
Improved transparency around value delivery processes.
Solutions for reducing operational costs and shortening implementation times.
A prioritized backlog of initiatives based on business value.
A clearer understanding of how to adapt your business for future growth.
Workshop Details and Agenda
The workshop is a two-day in-person workshop designed for a maximum of sixteen people. It can be run in German or English.
Preparation Phase
1-3 remote preparatory discussions: These remote sessions allow us to set the focus of the workshop based on your organization’s specific needs and current challenges. During this phase, we will agree on the scope of the value streams to be analyzed and the organizational goals you aim to achieve and the participants required to make the workshop a success.
Module 1: Identifying Your Value Generation Paths
Introduction to Value Streams: Understand what value streams are and why they’re crucial for your organization’s success.
Identifying Your Value Streams: Guided exercises to reveal the main pathways of value creation in your business.
Practical Application: Learn how to use value streams to drive strategic initiatives and operational efficiency.
Module 2: Capability Mapping
Understanding Business Capabilities: Delve into what business capabilities are and how they support value generation.
Mapping Capabilities to Value Streams: Identify and map the specific capabilities needed to operationalize each step of your value streams.
Building Consensus: Collaboratively create a high-level VS-Capability Map that aligns your teams and lays the groundwork for optimization.
Module 3: Leveraging the Results for Organizational Success
Adding Dynamics to the Map: Explore how value streams evolve over time and how to adjust them dynamically.
Strategic and Operational Uses: Learn how to use the VS-Capability Map to optimize governance, streamline strategy execution, and support operational decision-making.
Practical Insights: Understand how the results can drive improvements in road-mapping, team assignments, and resource allocation.
Module 4: Harnessing Benefits and Generating Actionable Measures
Applying to Real-World Challenges: Use the insights gained to address your organization’s pressing issues, such as reducing time to market and improving customer satisfaction.
Concrete Measures for Success: Develop actionable next steps to optimize business value, reduce operational costs, and enhance adaptability.
Planning for the Future: Discuss how to maintain and leverage the VS-Capability Map for continuous improvement and long-term business success.
