The Approach At High Level

Helgi Valur Fredriksson, Hamid Jafari (2010-05-21). To improvement the target company’s manufacturing process by applying lean principles, including using and analyzing the internal value stream mapping. As more and more companies have paid attention to implement lean thinking in their manufacturing process, the value stream mapping played an important role for many companies to make a transition from their traditional production systems to lean systems. The content and resources of this master thesis come from an American furniture company named KAMA which mainly produces office furniture with different components. Although there are various types of products, the authors merely focus on the office chair products. This research is an attempt

A Value Stream Map is then created to identify process inefficiencies and value creating improvement opportunities

Definition: of the lean innovation of new ideas, processes involves ways of building on the best practices. Such could include performance result comparisons to find out the place to focus on beginning and building on the next generation of processors. Identification: of innovation of new ideas Master Data, on this supporting important part of an organization or company, can apply the commonly known Porter's Value chain model and Balanced Scorecards to develop the individual organization's master dataset. The dataset will secure and make sure that information and processes will be able to provide a mix of stocks, bonds, document collection views that can be trusted. The Master Data, will, therefore, come up with what is required within certain types of process and at the same time be information, giving for systems interface definition. The Communications Order: supporting the organization should develop the orders to communicate its

The mapping of business processes, including related activity to determine what the organization does business; the frog who is responsible for the business process should be tailored to track the success of the Process. Businesses can set

1. Evaluate how to communicate and collaborate effectively using a variety of modalities including digital-age tools that ensure the learner’s professional growth.

Value Stream Mapping (VSM) allows user to create a concrete plan to make most efficient use of the available resources. VSM is one of the most powerful lean tool for an organization in implementing and improving on its lean journey. VSM shows the all the process from order entry to delivery. The value stream in a VSM is the point at which value is actually added to the product or service by changing its market form or function. Value adding activities can be things like: machining, assembly, welding, folding and so on.

(4) Platform as a Service - This offers a development environment as a service. You can use this technology to develop your own applications that run on the providers server.

PaaS provides sets of services and workflows that targets developers, who can use shared tools, technologies, processes and APIs to fast

New imperatives and technologies are forcing companies to rethink their fundamental business assumptions. The C-suite is under pressure to perform at increasingly high speeds and scale - there’s no letting up. Today’s executives are turning to cloud-based solutions to help improve business efficiencies while reducing CAPEX. Executives are immersed in terms like software as a service, open source, big data, cloud, scale-out, containers, microservices etc. While these terms and technologies represent a new world of opportunity, they also bring complexity that most IT departments are ill-equipped to pursue. This has become the Big Software era.

VALUE STREAMS: Value stream is a map of processes in the order of which they run. Creating a value stream is of key importance in understanding the value added and non-value added processes. Value streams help us identify the whole production process as a whole while giving us insight on all the sub processes that go through. Value stream processes may also depict the flow of information. VSM requires various departments to come together and prepare the map, it is not an individual job.

There are many advantages and disadvantages when considering Software as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service such as updates and maintenance, private or public clouds and the type of service SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS. First, updates and maintenance: it is imperative that the company look at the maintenance services provided by the cloud host and how often updates and maintenance are accomplished. Second, private or public clouds: management must determine which is more important a cheaper service or a safer service. On the one hand, a private cloud offers the capability of distributing its allotted resources amongst its users in a private setting

Platform as a Service (PaaS) is where vendors (ex. Google and Microsoft) provide servers, tools, and utilities to allow the creation of applications capable of being deployed on the internet. Users manage the applications deployed and some environment settings but not the cloud network, O/S, or servers. The only hardware required for this model is a device to connect to the service. (Dulaney & Eastomm, 2014)

New imperatives and technologies are forcing companies to rethink their fundamental business assumptions. The C-suite is under pressure to perform at increasingly high speeds and scale - there’s no letting up. Today’s C-Suite is turning to cloud-based solutions to help improve business efficiencies while reducing CAPEX. Executives are immersed in terms like software as a service, open source, big data, cloud, scale out, containers, microservices etc. While these terms and technologies represent a new world of opportunity, they also bring complexity that most IT departments are ill-equipped to pursue. This has become the Big Software era.

Combining the development and maintenance of system: In this approach both development and maintenance are combined to organize Information System Personnel (ISP). Generally, functional area sub-divides an area into teams. Each team is assigned to a system to complete the requests of new development and maintenance. This approach appears to be logical as the division between new development and adaptive maintenance is arbitrary. The advantages in this approach includes:

Basically, the more an organization can abstract infrastructure management, thus hiding its complexity from developers, the better that development team can decompose its applications into individual services while retaining a sense of the application’s complete scope and purpose, thus dramatically improving the organization’s velocity. No longer do application developers have to manage servers, the OS, containers, security, scheduling management, or myriad other functions that can and should be