CEOs are facing a world of increasing business complexity, faster innovation, and new uncertainties. Many of you have a global customer base and workforce. The competitive landscape is also increasingly global. The next cooler, more nimble competitor you’ve never heard of could come from Frankfurt, Singapore, San Francisco, Boston, or Copenhagen.
Succeeding in such a world requires learning, implementing, and delivering faster and better than the competition.
Originating with Toyota, the Lean Management methodology has been used to achieve significant gains in operating performance across a range of industries, including IT. Key benefits from implementing Lean in the IT sector include:
- Cost reductions from eliminating non-value-added work
- 50-80% reduction in time to market for new products
- Improved customer satisfaction
- Improved employee engagement and morale
- Improved quality
- A more agile, responsive organization
Lean engages your workforce in nonstop cycles of reflection, innovation, and implementation. It thereby helps improve every function in the business. A Lean transformation can be organized to focus on what will yield the biggest improvement in operating performance.
Resources for CEOs
- Whitepaper: For more information about Lean and operating performance in software companies, please download our white paper “Lean Execution: Six Questions for Software Executives” (no registration required).
- Case study interview: How we helped a software company improve its product development performance. Listen to an in-depth interview.
- Methodology: A quick overview of our approach to implementing Lean.
- Assessments and Briefings: The Lean Software Institute provides customized assessments and briefings to directors and C-level executives to explore how Lean might improve operating performance in their companies. For a confidential discussion, please contact us.
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