Fit for the Future:
Lean and the Software Industry
Learn how IT executives can leverage Lean to create sustainable competitive advantage and deliver more value to customers, employees, and shareholders.
You will learn how Lean
- Provides a shared, real-time view of what everyone is working on
- Mobilizes employees to solve the problems that matter most
- Yields sustainable business performance improvement
- Dramatically increases execution speed
- Delivers new insights into what customers value
- Helps employees fulfill their potential
Upcoming webinars:
New webinars to be announced soon!
Past webinars:
- 9/7/2011: Beyond Kanban: Lean as an Operating System
- 10/4/2011: Lean as an Organizational Learning System
- 11/8/2011: Coaching for Growth: Lean as a People System
- 11/29/2011: Leveraging Lean with your Business Model and Lifecycle Stage
- 1/25/2012: Lean Transformations: Leadership, Change Capacity, Financials
Presenters
Frode L. Odegard is the CEO and Founder of the Lean Software Institute. He has more than twenty years of experience as an entrepreneur and trusted advisor to high-tech executives. Organizations Frode has helped include Sony Electronics Inc., NASA, Lockheed Martin, Honeywell Aerospace, and Plantronics. He is currently working on a book on Lean Transformations in the IT industry.
Guest Presenters
Chris Hefley is the CEO and Co-Founder of LeanKit, a Nashville-based company that specializes in tools for Kanban and Lean Software Development. He is a career software developer and aspiring craftsman, and has a deep interest in things that can help software developers be more productive, effective, and happy.
Les Mckeown is the author of the Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller “Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization on the Growth Track and Keeping it There”. Les’ book is the first CEO-friendly framework for understanding clearly where an organization is in its development and what types of problems must be solved in each lifecycle stage. His upcoming book, “The Synergist”, is about developing more effective leaders. Les has been involved in starting more than forty businesses across a broad range of industries.
Audience
This webinar series is aimed at CXOs and other senior executives in the IT industry who are attempting to improve their organizations’ productivity, accelerate innovation, enhance financial performance, and improve employee engagement.