Value Streams Inventory and Attributes - Financial Attributes for the Value Streams Inventory

Value Streams Inventory and Attributes

Chapter 28. Financial Attributes for the Value Streams Inventory

Financial attributes capture the cost and value profile of each Value Stream.

Attribute Name	Maturity	Description and Notes
Cost to Operate	Walk	Description — The total annual fully-loaded cost to operate the Value Stream, including people, technology, and vendor costs across all stages. Benefit(s) — Enables value-stream-level financial analysis and supports improvement business cases. Source — Manual Notes — Typically an estimated allocation at Walk maturity. A rough order of magnitude is more useful than no value.
Value Delivered (Financial)	Run	Description — The quantified business value the Value Stream produces — the revenue it generates, the cost it avoids, or the financial contribution it makes to the enterprise. Benefit(s) — Enables return-on-investment analysis at the value stream level and prioritization of improvement investment. Source — Manual Notes — Where direct financial quantification is not possible, describe the value contribution qualitatively.