New frontiers: Lean in the digital age by Daniel T Jones
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The document discusses the impact of digital connectivity on various sectors and how lean methodologies can harness these changes for improved productivity and transformation. It highlights the challenges faced in successful IT projects and lasting lean transformations, emphasizing the importance of human involvement and continuous learning. Key themes include building cross-functional teams, adaptive decision-making, and the integration of technology with lean principles for better value development.
New frontiers: Lean in the digital age by Daniel T Jones
- 1. New Frontiers: Lean in the Digital age Daniel T Jones
- 2. Lean is everywhere But Digital changes everything – or does it?
- 3. Digital connectivity Is transforming many sectors media, retail, mobility, money, health etc. technical capabilities + social organisation + user acceptance Lean helps unlock these capabilities
- 4. Signs of change? Productivity Growth? Has been negligible Successful IT projects? Have not fulfilled their promise Lasting Lean transformations? Have been few and far between Reached the limits of modern management
- 5. Physical work Information & knowledge Human decisions Lean is about people
- 7. Toyota’s challenges Became No 1 in a mature industry Lead the way to the future of mobility Changing the technology Prius to Mirai Reengineering production to halve capital costs & zero emissions Through cumulative Kaizen
- 8. Lean & Software Similar ….. but different Principles > Tools > Management > Transformation > Learning > Software followed a parallel path Agile > XP > Scrum > Kanban > DevOps > Lean Startup > Lean UX >
- 9. Meaningful Work How to mobilise your “smart creatives”? How to avoid “big company” disease as you scale? How to build cross-functional teams?
- 10. Technology & Value Development becomes a continuous process New opportunities for co-design with users Incremental improvement of modular technologies
- 11. TPS for IT
- 12. The Learning Journey Find gaps at the user & producer Gemba Reflect on business results and next gaps Frame actions using the TPS House Eliminate obstacles through problem solving
- 13. The Lean contribution Technical capabilities smarter & simpler solutions using less capital & materials with less environmental impact User acceptance making things better by thinking back from users Social organisation Meaningful work by challenge & learning with others Better human decisions through “managing by science” Adaptive & innovative through cumulative Kaizen
- 14. New Frontiers: Lean in the Digital age Daniel T Jones