Bluespring Software

Bluespring LeanView™

Bluespring LeanView is an integrated Value Stream Mapping (VSM), Lean process design, analytics, and implementation solution that helps organizations rapidly improve the operational and financial performance of both product and service value streams.  With Leanview, you can:

• Streamline drawing, distribution, and updating of value stream map (VSM) diagrams
• Automatically calculate key operational and financial metrics for each VSM state
• Transform raw financial and process data into business intelligence in Microsoft Excel
• Convert value stream improvement opportunities into actionable Lean implementation plans
• Provide enterprise-level visibility and control over all activities and resources related to Lean projects

As the industry’s first fully integrated Value Stream Mapping & Analytics (VSM&A) toolset, LeanView provides a powerful framework for enterprise-wide lean deployment and sustainment.  It helps organizations enhance and standardize Lean Enterprise Transformation (LET) initiatives by supporting each step of the Lean improvement cycle.  From defining value to visualizing the value stream to implementing pull and striving for perfection, LeanView helps reinforce proven Lean principles and practices and standardize Lean processes.

How it works

It all starts by leveraging and extending commonly used Microsoft Office® System products.  This helps ensure widespread use and rapid adoption of LeanView by your Lean teams.  LeanView adds a powerful analytics engine to Microsoft Office Visio that enables Lean practitioners to quickly and accurately assess the operational and financial performance of any value stream.  LeanView also enables standard work output from a Kaizen Event by producing automated Kaizen Event Outbriefs in Microsoft Office PowerPoint and by automatically converting value stream improvement opportunities into Lean Implementation Project Plans in Microsoft Office Project.

As your LET program extends across the enterprise, LeanView can grow with you by incorporating advanced Microsoft collaboration technologies, including Microsoft Office SharePoint Services, Office Project Server, and Office Enterprise Project Management Solution.

Benefits of LeanView

Increased Lean Productivity and Efficiency – Empower managers and Lean practitioners by providing a Lean toolset that supports the systematic collection, design, analysis, reporting, and dissemination of VSM data.

Enhance Visibility and Mitigate Risks – Quickly and easily retrieve accurate data on current and future-state VSMs to enable faster and better-informed decision making.  Manage risk by modeling the effects of proposed value stream changes before implementation.

Reduce Costs While Maintaining Quality – The robust, integrated process optimization tools included in LeanView provide accurate and timely information on current operations and a framework to systematically transition to Lean.

Accelerate Time to Benefit – Accelerate the time to benefit by compressing Lean event timelines, reducing response and approval cycles, and creating a knowledge base for future Lean initiatives.