2. Pressures on IT
Executives
Staff
Compliance
CIO
PMO
CISO
Support
Strategic Sourcing
Operations
Network
Deliver a superior customer
experience
Increase agility
Effectively manage change
Ensure security and compliance
Reduce costs, increase
productivity
Improve business-IT
engagement
Mainframe Distributed Virtual Cloud
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3. Deliver Maximum Value at Minimum Cost
Lean IT
An approach that helps IT
organizations focus on
what’s important —
delivering value
to their clients
Reduce waste
Increase productivity
Improve customer
experience
Aim resources at high
value deliverables
Executives
Staff
Compliance
CIO
PMO
CISO
Support
Strategic Sourcing
Operations
Network
COST
VALUE
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4. COST
VALUE
Enterprise IT Management Solutions Enable Lean IT
Lean IT
Visualize, automate and
optimize IT systems and
processes
From the data center to
the customer
From staff to assets
Govern, manage
and secure IT
Executives
Staff
Compliance
CIO
PMO
CISO
Support
Strategic Sourcing
Operations
Network
Enterprise IT
Management
4
5. Lean IT: Waste Not, Want Not
Waste Example Strategy
Defects
Unplanned outages and service defects due to
unauthorized and unplanned changes
Change and configuration Management
Over-Production
Developing IT services for which there is no
client requirement or quantified business need
Service Portfolio Management
Waiting
Unacceptable application response time Application Performance management
Non-Value added processing
Reporting in technical terms and jargon IT Financial Management
Transportation
Manual Software and compliance audits IT Asset Management
Inventory (Excess)
Server and data center sprawl from unused or
idle computing capacity
Data Centre automation
Motion (Excess)
Manual activities and repetitive mundane
tasks
Data Centre Automation
Employee Knowledge (Unused)
Lost time, ideas, skills, improvements Service Support
Editor's Notes
The economic downturn hasn’t reduced the pressures being placed on IT. Here we’re showing how IT is ensconced in the business, delivering value to the business and on behalf of the business out to customers and suppliers. IT is doing this from a variety of infrastructure platforms including mainframe, distributed, virtual and cloud.
IT organizations are being asked to cut their budgets by 10%, 20% or more. Yet, business requests for IT services are unabated. It’s even more critical now to optimize the engagement process between IT and business executives to ensure the right projects (and only the right projects) are funded.
CIOs are being challenged to deliver the same or better ‘customer experience’ in spite of the budget reductions—and as a result are looking for new ways to further increase productivity and reduce costs without impacting service.
Change is constant. IT must be agile to respond to changing market conditions or business requirements. And IT must have controlled processes for managing IT changes to avoid negatively impacting the business.
And of course, all of this must be managed in a context that is both secure and compliant with industry or federal regulations.
To address these challenges, many companies are applying Lean thinking to IT.
Lean IT is an approach that helps organizations focus on what’s important – delivering value to their customers. Central to lean thinking is an emphasis on reducing waste or non-value added activity. The result is both an increase in productivity and an improvement in service quality and customer experience.
The beauty of Lean IT is its pragmatism. It rewards and even encourages incremental wins, doesn’t require a grand overhaul of systems, and isn’t obscure in its methodology, terminology or theory.