Value Stream Mapping Module
Value Stream Mapping
What are the goals you have for your organization? Growth? Performance improvement? A blacker bottom line? Greater respect and teamwork among your employees? An improved reputation? Newsworthy accomplishments? Reduced stress in the workplace?
If any or all of these are in your strategic plans, then Value Stream Mapping is one of the tools that can help you achieve any or all of them. If you apply the tools consistently throughout your organization, you will likely achieve all of the above results, and more. Organizations that have embraced Value Stream Mapping as part of their culture also enjoy higher retention, reduced turnover, higher employee morale and reduced absenteeism.
Performance Objectives
Helps associates:
Understand the history and relevance of VSM to healthcare
Define the benefits of VSM
Identify VSM opportunities and projects
Identify value-added and non-value added activities
Complete a VSM or A-3
Conduct and evaluate an experimental test
Create follow-up from a test
Identify internal and external customers and how they might benefit from the VSM process
Course Overview
This course gives leadership or employees the opportunity to succeed with positive change immediately. This module examines current processes within the organization with an eye to eliminating waste and improving value and satisfaction for patients and their families. During each session, sequences are mapped for greater understanding and identification of where waste occurs. Participants then use the remaining sessions to change their processes to eliminate problems of waste. The results of Value Stream Mapping are exciting and energizing, as they almost always deliver immediate cost or time savings that grow over time. Value Stream Mapping projects can and are often done on a regular basis in healthcare organizations, delighting both the patients and staff with increased efficiencies and saving money in places that are often overlooked.
Additional benefits to your organization:
Added time
Bottom line savings
Improved safety
Fewer mistakes
Greater respect between individuals and departments
Reduced stress and frustration
Greater job satisfaction/pride of ownership
Improved teamwork and collaboration
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