This book charts a course of simplification through the complexity often associated with managing performance improvement initiatives. It explains what value streams are and how to use them to structure your business to align everyone with the things that matter most. The text boils constraint management down to its practical terms and lays out an approach to accounting that enables everyone to spend money where it adds value and stop spending it where it doesn't. Written by authorities with extensive experience helping organizations achieve Lean transformations, it includes case studies of organizations recognized for operational excellence.