Flowcharting: The Three Steps to Clarity and Value

How confident are you that your team sees the process the same way you do?

You might view flowcharting as a drawing exercise, but in reality, it’s a thinking tool. A framework for helping teams explore messy processes to reveal what people assume, what they disagree on, and what they’ve never properly surfaced.

Drawing on his own improvement project experience, Senior Consultant, Mark Allison talks through three levels of flowcharting that help improvement practitioners move from high-level clarity into the deeper issues sitting in handoffs, rework, and unclear ownership.

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