Optimised Future State: Making the Most of Process Mapping
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Do you get stuck with your future state maps?
This short guide, ‘Optimised Future State’, can help you and your team to adopt a very straightforward and easy to use framework that takes the guesswork out of developing an optimal future state map for your business.
Whether your process mapping is part of a Lean initiative, or is part of your existing culture, the framework presented will help you to handle the multitude of options you generate and leave you with a single distinct ‘winner’ for your business to proceed with.
The method detailed in this book will help you to convert your process maps, or current state maps, and guide you through a number of steps to support you in creating a logical, rational, best option to go forward with.
Written by an experienced business improvement consultant, this guide will help you to prepare for future state mapping sessions more effectively and can help you to develop far more effective improvement projects going forward.
So, if you have a current state map and can’t agree with your team on what options are going to be the best for the business then buy ‘Optimised Future State’ today and see how simple developing an optimal solution can be.
Giles Johnston
Giles Johnston is a business improvement consultant who specialises in helping businesses improve their on time delivery performance. Giles is a Chartered Engineer and uses the same principles and problem solving ideas from his manufacturing background to help businesses in all sectors.Many of the tools and methods Giles uses to help his clients improve their performance have now made their way into written format and have now been published as ebooks. Giles is thankful to his clients who have pushed him to write down his views and ideas, making these books possible.Giles lives in the North East of England with his family.
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Optimised Future State: Making the Most of Process Mapping
Giles Johnston
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The purpose of this book
Welcome.
This book has been written to help those of you who find creating a future state map (of any business improvement type project) difficult or frustrating.
Future state mapping is a term that is closely linked with the Value Stream Mapping approach that is a staple in the Lean Manufacturing improvement toolkit. More and more I hear my clients talk about ‘future state maps’ with reference to any kind of visual plan for their future (manufacturing or otherwise) processes. This book aims to help you improve how your business pulls together its future state map, whatever format you choose to use. Whether your future state map is a value stream map, a process flow chart, a graphical representation or something else, this book will help you regardless.
Although this book won’t go into depth about specific techniques for future state mapping, it will discuss an approach that you can use to help ensure that you reach agreement with your colleagues and actually create a workable future state map. You will probably notice that this book is more about getting results than following a specific ‘text book’ approach. This is mainly to do with my preferred style of working, but it is also because I find so many businesses getting stuck because they try to do things perfectly rather than taking advantage of the benefits that they could have right before their eyes if only they took imperfect action now.
The route that I will demonstrate will help you and your team to share ideas and will help to keep you focussed so that you can all ‘pull in one direction’, as they say. There are so many ideas present within our businesses, so many good insights and experiences that when we combine them all together in our process improvement sessions we run the risk of not being able to manage all of the brilliance we bring to the table. I hope that by the end of this short book you will feel better prepared to take on these situations and generate future states maps that really will serve your business’ aspirations.
So, if you are tired of the ‘dead end’ mapping that we see all too often, then sit back, get comfortable and let me guide you through an alternative approach to creating your future states, an approach that will let you sift through