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Topic: Management Improvement
A new Lean Blog, Compound Thinking, focuses on Information Technology. It has started off with some interesting posts, including - Compound Thinking: Lean Manufacturing Principles — Trust the Team:
And Lean Manufacturing Practices — Kaizan:
I agree. It is very easy for waste to be hidden in IT. I think it is more difficult to notice the inefficiencies in IT because much of the work is done in virtual space, not real space. I think that can make it more difficult to see the waste. Or perhaps I am just using that as an excuse.
IT people also can hack something to meet today’s need and add it to the code base. It would normally be much more difficult to modify production machines. While this is an advantage (more flexibility) it often leads to sloppy systems. Instead of taking the time to design these properly something is created quickly, for today. If the code had a physical existence I think much of it would look like a rube Goldberg contraption.
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November 6th, 2005 at 12:22 pm
Thanks for the comments, I am convinced that there is a huge amount of waste in most IT departments, but that it is often not in the places where people expect it.
I have been blogging on a few other time-sensitive topics right now, but I have a lot more lean stuff online for the next few weeks.
In particular I have been investigating Lean Product Development ideas, which translate to IT practices quite nicely.
June 27th, 2006 at 7:19 pm
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