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EKOScafe [at] ekosi [dot] com Key Learning Points: Value Stream Management: Leverage Strategies, Innovations, and Process Improvements across the Entire Value Stream Collaboration: Build Collaborative Relationships and Break Down Barriers Between Functions and Companies? Lean Thinking: Implement Lean Thinking Across the Value Stream Strategic Sustainability: Incorporate Requirements for Environmental and Social Sustainability across the Product Life Cycle Total Cost/Wealth Management: Strategize to Increase Market Value Using Total Cost/Total Wealth Analysis Measures: Select measures and indicators to optimize value across entire life cycle and value stream | EKOS has developed for executive/ management education the Value Stream Coffee Game™ that has been getting rave reviews. The game is currently a core part of a two week residential Executive Education for the top 2,000 managers of a Fortune 50 Corporation, and has been delivered to over 700 managers. Facing the real dynamics of the coffee industry, managers strategize to double their market value by applying requirements for success in the new economy:  Lean Thinking and "Just-in-Time" Production
Design for X and Mass Customization
Rapid Time-to-Market
Supply Chain Management
Information & Knowledge Management
Intellectual Capital and Innovative Human
 Resource Management
Environmental and Social Responsibility
Strategic Relationships and Stakeholder
Management
Metrics for System Optimization
This fun, interactive game provides a vivid illustration of management across the entire value stream---participants see the advantages of applying principles of lean thinking, design, and production through the extended enterprise of suppliers, suppliers' suppliers, and customers, and customers' customers. This game holds a great deal of promise for use in any company concerned with leveraging improvements and increasing collaboration at a Value Stream level. Managers truly go through a paradigm shift between the first Cycle and second Cycle, away from sub-optimization toward collaborating and managing the entire value stream. The Value Stream Coffee Game™ uses the entire value stream of coffee production, from raw materials (the Growers) through transport, roasting, coffee marketing, coffee equipment design and manufacturing, to wholesale and retail distribution. Managers team up to play one of 8 key roles in this value chain, making investment decisions in order to try to double their market value. Insightful decisions remove barriers blocking the free flow of goods, services, and information. There are two cycles of investments with market feedback. In Cycle 1, people typically try to optimize their individual company, whereas Cycle 2 is designed to elicit collaboration across the value stream and optimization of the whole system. Managers consistently report the experience as both paradigm shattering and fun! The game takes 2 1/2- 3 hours---it can stand alone, or help reinforce other key learning. Ideally, sixteen people play 8 roles per game table, with up to 4 tables/session (8-64 participants). The learning is most powerful when done with representatives from customers and suppliers. One typical scenario for a seminar is a brief introduction to requirements for managing in the new economy, playing the game with a short summary, lunch, then interactive lecture, group analysis, and discussion about the implications of "Value Stream Management" in participants' companies. Pre- and post-game seminars are easily customized to your organization's specific strategic priorities and learning objectives. |
