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

Value Streams Inventory and Attributes

Chapter 13. Strategic Attributes for the Value Streams Inventory

Strategic attributes capture the value the Value Stream delivers and the enterprise’s stated direction for it — its importance, its alignment to strategic goals, and the investment intention behind it.

Attribute Name	Maturity	Description and Notes
Value Proposition	Crawl	Description — The core value the Value Stream delivers to its receiving stakeholder — the concise statement of why the value stream exists and what outcome it produces. Benefit(s) — Anchors every analysis of the value stream in the value it is meant to deliver, preventing improvement efforts from optimizing activity that does not contribute to the outcome. Source — Manual Examples — A funded loan delivered to a qualified borrower with minimum friction; Restored service for an affected user in the shortest feasible time
Strategic Importance	Walk	Description — The assessed importance of this Value Stream to the enterprise’s ability to execute its strategy and compete. Benefit(s) — Enables risk-weighted portfolio analysis — identifying high-importance value streams that are underperforming or poorly supported. Source — Manual Examples — Low, Medium, High, Critical Notes — Valid values: Low \| Medium \| High \| Critical. Assessed annually.
Strategic Goals Alignment [Multi-Value]	Walk	Description — The enterprise strategic goals or objectives that this Value Stream directly enables or supports. Benefit(s) — Creates a traceable link from the value stream portfolio to executive-level strategic intent. Source — Manual Examples — Customer Experience Transformation; Revenue Growth; Operational Efficiency; Time-to-Market Improvement Notes — Use official strategic goal names. Separate multiple values with semicolons.
Investment Priority	Walk	Description — The enterprise’s stated intention for investment in this Value Stream: whether to actively improve it, maintain it at current levels, or reduce investment. Benefit(s) — Drives portfolio investment decisions by connecting improvement funding to explicit value-stream-level intentions. Source — Manual Examples — Invest, Sustain, Disinvest Notes — Valid values: Invest, Sustain, Disinvest.

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