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