Intake is the Bottleneck: A Practical VSM Playbook for Change Leaders 🔧 Fixing Flow Where It Starts — Especially for Nonprofit & Impact-Driven Teams

Intake is the Bottleneck: A Practical VSM Playbook for Change Leaders 🔧 Fixing Flow Where It Starts — Especially for Nonprofit & Impact-Driven Teams 💡 What’s This About? Ever feel like your project is stuck in traffic before it even starts? That’s not bad luck. That’s intake — the often-overlooked choke point in your value stream. This playbook is your road map to clearing that bottleneck. Whether you're in change management, project leadership, or nonprofit operations, this guide gives you the tools, cases, coaching strategies, and visual maps to identify and fix what’s really slowing you down. 🚦 What You'll Learn ✅ How to spot friction at the very front of your value stream ✅ How to reduce cost of delay, blockers, and rework ✅ How to align human-centered change with lean flow ✅ How to experiment using EVO cycles, JTBD, and QVR ✅ How to use tools from Amplio, Gilb, Toyota Kata, and more ✅ How to integrate Scrum, PMBOK, ADKAR, and BABOK thinking 📦 What’s Inside 🗂️ Fictional Case Studies With coaching scenarios, decision points, rework triggers, and value stream mapping exercises 🧰 Templates + Worksheets Impact Estimation Tables, blocker analysis tools, experiment planners, and delay calculators 🗣️ Full Slide Deck + Script Use the “Race Car on the Highway” metaphor to teach teams about flow, friction, and value 🧠 AI & Change Coaching Tools Prompts, journaling techniques, and chatbot scripts to explore blockers and reframe resistance 🧩 Appendices Galore 100 prompts to explore value stream learning Framework crosswalk (Scrum, BABOK, CMBoK, ADKAR, PMBOK) Annotated bibliography of 25+ top books and theories Change manager reflections and experiment rollout plan 📣 Who This Is For Change managers who want to see flow Agile coaches integrating systems thinking and change Nonprofit leaders running lean on time and trust Program managers who want real metrics, not just feel-good slogans Teams that need better handoffs, clarity, and habits 📬 Contact & Support 💼 Brought to you by: AGIL3 Enterprise Coaching & Value Stream Solutions, LLC 📩 Contact: admin@agil3enterprise.com 🌐 Visit: www.agil3enterprise.com