In plain language and with detailed drawings, this workbook explains everything you will need to know to create accurate current-state and future- state maps for each of your product families and then to turn the current state into the future state rapidly and sustainably.
In Learning to See you will find:
- A foreword by Jim Womack and Dan Jones explaining the need for this tool.
- An introduction by Mike Rother and John Shook describing how they discovered the mapping tool in their study of Toyota.
- Guidance on identifying your product families.
- A detailed explanation of how to draw a current-state map.
- A practice case permitting you to draw a current-state map on your own, with feedback from Mike and John in the appendix on how you did.
- A detailed explanation of how to draw a future-state map.
- A second practice case permitting you to draw a future-state map, with "the answer" provided in the appendix.
- Guidance on how to designate a manager for each value stream.
- An explanation of how to use the yearly value stream plan to guid