Entries Tagged as 'Lean Thinking'
by Mark P. McDonald | October 7, 2011 | 1 Comment
The IT organization structure is more than boxes in an organization chart. The IT organization and the decisions it contains have a significant influence on IT performance, capability and process. How you are organized also represents the way you think about IT. Leaders are thinking about their organizations in new ways, replacing monolithic IT structures [...]
Category: IT Governance Leadership Lean Thinking Management Re-imagine IT Small IT Tags: CIO Leadership, IT organization, Lean Thinking, Small IT
by Mark P. McDonald | July 13, 2011 | 3 Comments
Blogging Note: Like Gary Trudeau I am taking a week off from blogging, but I would like to share a past post that may be helpful. The original posts were made in the Fall 2009, but much of their points remain true. I have made links to the original posts to make it easy to [...]
Category: IT Governance Lean Thinking Management Re-imagine IT Tags: IT Leadership, IT management, Lean Thinking, Tools
by Mark P. McDonald | October 11, 2009 | 2 Comments
There are seven sources of waste identified in lean thinking. Unnecessary Inventory is one of them and found in any company. There are many forms of inventory: finished goods sitting in a warehouse unsold, work in progress tied up in your process, and raw materials awaiting production. In manufacturing a major concern of unnecessary inventory [...]
Category: Economy Leadership Lean Thinking Tags: Business Leadership, cost cutting, IT Leadership, IT management, Lean Thinking
by Mark P. McDonald | October 7, 2009 | 2 Comments
Transporting is one of the forms of waste or Muda. Lean thinking evolved in manufacturing where raw materials and work in process move around the shop floor from station to station. Every movement takes time, increases the risk of damage and requires non-value added activities. The more transporting activity the greater the opportunity for waste. [...]
Category: CIO Economy Lean Thinking Tags: Business Management, Lean Thinking, Management
