Since our founding in 2004, we have talked with countless “Lean Advocates” — IT executives and senior managers who want to introduce Lean to their colleagues and CEO. Advocates typically struggle with:
- Telling the story about current operating challenges without making it seem like managers are “incompetent”
- Learning about how Lean works
- Motivating your audience to consider a new paradigm
- Identifying and persuading individual colleagues
- Assessing how Lean would impact performance
- Building a business case
- Showing how a Lean transformation would work
- Understanding and justifying the need for external help
The good news is that you don’t have to go it alone. We have experience in guiding and mentoring Lean Advocates to get them to a point where the management team is ready to consider launching a Lean initiative.
Resources
- Recommended blog posts
- Whitepapers
- Lean Execution: Six Questions for Software Executives (asks some tough questions about who is responsible for improving operating performance and how)
- Interviews
- Newsletter
- Register for our e-newsletter, an easy way to stay in touch and get regular information about upcoming articles, interviews, and events related to Lean and the software industry.
- Mentoring
- To explore how we can work with you to introduce the Lean conversation in your management team, contact us to learn about our Lean Advocate Mentoring Program.