Enhancing work system design and improvement by further developments of value stream mapping

The main goal of a company is to conduct target oriented rationalization efforts. Thus, the challenges are, among others, to transparence, to bundle, to adapt, to reinterpret and to develop personal and organizational competencies for systematic and methodic planning, designing and implementing, i.e. giving sustainable improvement of processes and value streams. This article describes the further developments of "Value Stream Mapping" (Value Stream oriented Process Management, Value Stream Mapping and MTM, evaluation of alternative value streams, cost development of value streams by changing input parameters). Existing, implicit knowledge will be explicated and systematically bundled along the value stream from different departments of a company in order to enhance work system design and improvement. The personal and organizational system and method competencies are therefore available to evaluate improvement measures and to perform their target-oriented implementation.