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Value-stream / waste analysis

Classifies each process step as value-add or waste, quantifies removable effort, charts the stream, and writes a savings case with quick wins.

  • Operations & Process
  • Traceable reasoning
  • Runs anywhere
Preview methodology

1 week → ~10 minutes

For a full population, not a sample

No coding required

Input
A step-level table with time or effort per step
Output
Value-add / non-value-add classification per step with waste type
Runs in
Skillsize · ChatGPT · Claude · Copilot
Export
SKILL.md · MCP
Time saved
~1 week per run

— USE CASES

What people use Value-stream / waste analysis for

Lean and waste analysis

Quantify how much of a process's effort is genuinely removable, step by step.

Building a savings case

Convert a step table into a numbers-backed argument for change.

Prioritising quick wins

Identify the smallest changes that release the most effort first.

What it works from

  • A step-level table with time or effort per step
  • Your value-add definitions
  • Any cost or FTE conversion you use

What you get back

  • Value-add / non-value-add classification per step with waste type
  • A step-by-step chart of the stream
  • A savings case: addressable effort, top wastes, quick wins

— HOW IT BEHAVES

How Value-stream / waste analysis produces its result

The mechanics behind this specific template — what it reads, what it calculates, and where a human stays in the loop.

Row-level table processing

Every row of your table is processed on the same basis, however long the table is.

Charted, not just stated

The pattern is visualised from the computed data, so the trend is legible at a glance.

Composed as work product

Findings are written up as a document that reads like professional output rather than raw model text.

Enriched row by row

Each row gains derived columns from the analysis, keeping the source data and the judgement side by side.

Why this is expensive by hand

Load a table of process steps with time or effort per step. Lean and waste analysis is the typical trigger — quantify how much of a process's effort is genuinely removable, step by step. Get it right and the conclusion holds up in the room; get it rushed and it gets picked apart. Either way it costs roughly 1 week of experienced attention.

How this Skill produces it

Here the same job runs as a Skill. Your material goes in; value-add / non-value-add classification per step with waste type comes out, alongside a step-by-step chart of the stream. What sits between input and output is the codified method: thresholds, sequencing and the points where a human confirms a call — all of it visible and editable in the Skill. The practical effect: 1 week of manual work becomes a ~10 minutes run, held to an identical standard on the tenth engagement as on the first.

Who it's for

  • Independent consultants codifying their own methodology
  • Strategy and transformation teams standardising delivery
  • Internal advisory functions under pressure to produce faster
  • Operators who need defensible output, not a one-off chat answer

Run it in Skillsize — or export it anywhere

Value-stream / waste analysis exports as a structured SKILL.md file and is MCP-ready, so the same method runs in ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or your own AI products. Adapt it to your methodology, and the intelligence stays yours — not locked to one vendor.

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