<p>Ideas for fulfilling customer needs can be generated&nbsp;much faster than they can actually be realized. This is&nbsp;the source of much tension between the organization&nbsp;and its customers, but also within the organization itself.</p><p>Upstream Kanban isn&rsquo;t so much about &ldquo;managing&nbsp;flow,&rdquo;&nbsp;as seen with downstream, Delivery Kanban systems. Instead,&nbsp;it is about marshaling options&mdash;having enough&nbsp;choices at the right time, without overburdening the&nbsp;system and the workers who generate those options.</p><p>Discover the mechanisms of Upstream Kanban and&nbsp;Customer Kanban for better enterprise business agility.</p>