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The Future of Value Stream Management
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The Future of Value Stream Management

  • The Future of Value Stream Management

  • Where’s this all heading? 

  • DAOs

  • Is there a future where VSMgt intersects with DAOs?

  • What does a futuristic value stream network look like?

  • Human Collaboration models: Tribes -> Bureaucracy -> Digital -> DAOs

  • Ethical risks - worker exploitation; 

  • Optimization in natural systems

  • Can companies be too efficient? Jevon’s paradox

  • Externalities

  • Human motivation: creativity vs. friction

  • Increasing complexity of work

  • Increasing education and adaptability required

  • Increase in the number of humans not participating in the economy / on the margins of society

  • Waste in knowledge work

  • Lean as a way of exposing waste

  • Pain and fear as a way of rebalancing what we’re doing

  • How this fits in with x: 

  • Business

  • Tech

  • Strategy

  • Security, crypto/DAOs

  • AI

Key Takeaways

  • Visibility, Data-driven decision making, and the system of work

  • Collective and personal flow

The shared value stream lexicon

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