The New Frontier of Lean: the Digital Lean Enterprise by Steve Bell

Lean IT Summit 14 & 15 March 2017
Copyright © Institut Lean France 2017
The New Frontier of Lean:
The Digital Lean Enterprise
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Lean Principles are essential for Digital Transformation
Digital Capabilities are essential for the modern Lean Enterprise
Lean for Digital
Digital for Lean
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Part One
 How do you separate Digitization and Big Data
hype from reality?
 How do you determine what digitization and big data
capabilities may be worth your investigation and
experimentation?
Part Two
 Three Lean value-enablers
essential for the Digital Lean Enterprise

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“We choose to go to
the moon in this
decade, and do the
other things, not
because they are
easy, but because
they are hard.”
May 25, 1961
President John F. Kennedy
July 20, 1969
Neil Armstrong sets foot on the moon
Elapsed time: 8 years 1 month 25 days
Existential threat: Cold War, Nuclear Arms Race, Space Race
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“User stories” included:
✓ Leave earth’s atmosphere
and reenter safely
✓ Keep humans alive in space
✓ Launch a large payload
✓ Extravehicular activity (spacewalk)
✓ Dock two space vehicles
✓ Leave earth orbit and travel to moon
✓ Separate lunar lander, land on moon, and
launch again
✓ Conduct hundreds of experiments on moon
In less than ten years:
✓ Develop scientific and industrial community and
infrastructure
✓ Invent, develop, test and deploy countless new
technologies
✓ Deliver high reliability capabilities under extremely
challenging, completely new conditions
How did we get there?

Existential threat to many industries and organizations
Rapidly emerging and unpredictable technologies
New industries and partnerships
New economic and social structures
The Digitization Moonshot
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Reward
Digital [masters] outperform their
peers: “26% more profitable than their
average industry competitors,
generating 9% more revenue with
existing physical capacity.”
Leading Digital, MIT Center for Digital Business
Risk
“about 50 percent of the S&P 500 will
be replaced over the next 10 years;
too many companies lack a coherent
vision of the future.”
Clayton Christensen and colleagues at Innosight

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HYPE
What delivers real
value for you?
What is hype?
What is real?
How to tell
the difference?
The Digitization and Big Data Chasm

What is “Digitization”?
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An Adaptive Learning
Human/Digital Ecosystem
Source: Steve Bell, The Digital Lean Enterprise

Digital Masters focus on making their businesses different
through technology, not on technologies themselves.
You can differentiate your company through
three broad categories of digital capability:
1. Customer experience
2. Operational processes
3. Business models
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MIT Center for
Digital Business

1. Adoption by industry sector
2. Adoption by technology
3. Application of a specific technology to a particular
problem or opportunity
4. How application of a specific technology may vary by
industry, and by customer or worker engagement
5. How convergence of digital technologies creates an
infinite variety of potential applications
To understand what ‘digitization’ means to
your business, let’s consider five dimensions

Dimension 1:
Digitization
Adoption
by Industry
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We created this visual heuristic based on a composite of research sources

Dimension 2:
Digital
Technology
Adoption
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We created this visual heuristic based on a composite of research sources
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Highly
Disruptive
Scarcely
Disruptive
Widely
adopted
Piloting <3 years >3 years
Investment priority timeline
Big Data
Analytics
Mobility
Cloud
RFID
Geo
location
Algorithms
Augmented
Reality
Artificial
Intelligence
aka Cognitive
Computing
Additive Mfg
& 3D Printing
Social
Tech
Internet of
Things
Flexible
Robotics
Machine
Learning
Remote
Collaboration
Basic
Robotics
Natural
Language
Predictive
Analytics
Autonomous
Learning
Robotics
Early adopters

Dimension 3:
Applications
of Digitization
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Customer engagement, interaction, experience, and listening
Workforce enablement: collaboration, knowledge management,
learning, interactive standard work
Product and Service digitization: technology as a product,
technology embedded into physical products, enhancing the
experience of using them, and providing customer service for them
Business process improvement, supply chain optimization
automation, algorithms, artificial intelligence
Managing complexity: self-service configuration, algorithms,
pattern recognition, geolocation mapping, natural language,
machine learning, artificial intelligence, cognitive computing, and
more . . .
Big (and Small) Data Analytics: problem solving,
experimentation, modeling and simulations, decision support
Lean
Practice!

Dimension 4:
Application
by Industry,
&
by Customer
and Worker
involvement
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Retail
Consumer
Financial
Services
Manufacturing
Mobile Customer
Experience
Mobile Worker
Enablement
Transactional apps,
predictive account
inquiry, priority alerts,
preference based
notifications
Proximity marketing,
Omnichannel
experience, in-store
comparisons and
research, augmented
reality design/choice
Home appliance
remote diagnosis,
auto safety and
security
Algorithms, automation,
system status
notifications,
compliance alerts
Real time analytics to
drive design,
purchasing and
promotions, customer
service chat
Preventive maintenance
alerts, team
collaboration,
geolocation, video
standard work

Dimension 5:
Digital
Convergence

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This is Convergence . . .
Internet of Things
+
Automated Alerts
+
Mobility
+
Augmented Reality
engineering overlay
=
Interactive, data-driven diagnostics,
preventative maintenance and
continuous improvement

Our Customer Convergence Experience
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Convergence of:
• Near Field Communication (“Tap On” 1.6 inch proximity)
• Speech synthesis
• Appliance operational monitoring, diagnostics and data
• Consumer mobile internet access

Digital convergence will
continue to accelerate
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Follow the Hype? Or pursue the value?

MIT Center for Digital Business
New, “sexy” technologies aren’t enough. Operational excellence is also necessary
to bring new products and services to market quickly and efficiently.
McKinsey Global Institute
What really sets the leaders apart is the degree to which they
put digital tools in the hands of their employees to ramp up productivity.
Gartner
Organizations are moving from vague notions of data and analytics to specific
business problems that data can address. Big Data success depends on a
holistic strategy around business outcomes, skilled personnel, data and
infrastructure.
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How to Cross the Digital Chasm

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Part Two
Three Lean value enablers
essential for the
Digital Lean Enterprise

You can differentiate your company through
three broad categories of digital capability:
1. Customer experience
2. Operational processes
3. Business models
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MIT Center for
Digital Business

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Value Enablers of the Digital Lean Enterprise
Purpose
People
Customer
Value
Experience
Engagement
Flow
Development
and Operations
Problem Solving
Data
Context
Strategic Alignment
Process
Business
& Operating
Models
Products
& Services

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The boundaries between physical and digital, products,
services, channels, and experiences are blurring . . .
• Physical products and services often include an
increasing amount of digital value, to the point
where the original market may be disrupted
(e.g. Media, Tax preparation, Automobiles)
• Digital services may spinoff or integrate with
physical products (e.g. Google Nest, Amazon Echo)
• Omnichannel: Physical and digital channels that
blend into a seamless customer experience
(e.g. retail, consumer banking)
• Products and services that gather usage data to
continuously innovate and create more value
(e.g. Google Maps, Tesla)
Emerging digital
convergences, business and
operating models are
seemingly limitless – large
enterprises must learn to think
and act like Lean Startups

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Pursue the
Growth
Hypothesis
✓ Innovate in conditions of
significant uncertainty
✓ Experiment to validate the
Value Hypothesis before
pursing the Growth
Hypothesis
✓ Quickly pivot when needed
Lean Product, Software
and Process Development
Lean Operational
Excellence
✓ Rapid, iterative improvement
and innovation of physical and
virtual products and services,
and the processes that support
and deliver them
✓ Agile, Scrum, Kanban, DevOps,
Continuous Delivery, and Agile
at scale are all derived from
Lean principles
✓ Continuously improve speed,
quality, cost, customer experience
and satisfaction, employee
engagement
✓ Leverage your strengths, address
your weaknesses
Lean Startup
Lean Management Systems
and Behaviors
Lean is a system
for adaptive
learning

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Purpose
Customer
Value
Experience
Engagement

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Operations &
Delivery
Customer
Experience
Provider
Experience
Moments
of Truth
How to understand “Customer Experience”
Source: Womack and Jones, Lean Solutions: How Companies and
Customers Can Create Value and Wealth Together
Failure
Demand
Customer
Value
Experience
Engagement

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Operations &
Delivery
“Virtual Gemba” to measure Customer
Experience, Engagement and Subjective Value
Customer
Value
Experience
Engagement
Gather customer experience data:
• Time
• Incorrect diagnoses
• Rework cycles
• Number of phone calls
• Number of interactions
• Number of return visits
• Auto usage and performance
onboard data and diagnostics
• Loyalty
• New purchases
• Net Promoter Score
• Social media ratings
✓ Detect patterns and trends
✓ Conduct experiments (PDCA)

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Process
Flow
Development
and
Operations

Continuous Flow From Idea to Delivery
29Source: Run Grow Transform, Bell (2012)
DevOps
Many don’t
measure this
well, and validate
the initial value
hypothesis
(aka business
case)
Flow
Development
and
Operations
Water-
Scrum-
Fall

Research proves Lean practice is
essential to DevOps success
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Conclusions:
“When employees see the connection between the work they do
and its positive impact on customers, they identify more strongly
with the company’s purpose, which leads to better IT and
organizational performance.”
“When product teams take a lean approach to product design
and delivery, organizations see a positive impact on both IT
performance and culture, leading to higher levels of
organizational performance.”
“Taking a lean approach to product development predicts higher
IT performance and less deployment pain.”
Flow
Development
and
Operations

Cyber-Physical Speed to Market
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Tesla
• Some updates move from digital design into
physical product iterations in as short as one
week
• Product enhancements upload while you sleep
John Deere
“It’s easier to implement agile on our web
properties than it is to apply it to
combines, sprayers and tractors, but
everyone has the same process and the
same mentality.” ”Since I purchased my model S one year ago I have
received constant updates that have improved small
comfort features and fine-tuned autopilot based on the
data sent back from the entire Tesla fleet. The result?
Every few months I get a better car and my satisfaction
and level of delight with the brand goes up.”
Flow
Development
and
Operations
4x to 8x
Product
Development
Velocity
improvement

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People
Problem Solving
Data
Context
Strategic Alignment

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The Martian, 2015
Problem Solving
Data
Context
Strategic Alignment

Evaluating well-designed and executed experiments
that were designed to improve a key metric, only about
1/3 were successful at improving the key metric!
Online Experimentation at Microsoft, Kohavi et al
80% of the time, we are wrong about what consumers
want – the truth is in the data
Big Data at Spotify, Adam Kawa, Data Engineer
Use Data to Test your Hypotheses!

Gemba and Virtual Gemba
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Gemba: Direct Observation and
Experience using our senses
Virtual Gemba: Extending our
senses and our frame of reference
Problem Solving
Data
Context
Strategic Alignment
Blend of both
enables more
nuanced
understanding
– not just what
they want, but
why they want
it, and what
they might like
if they found it
was possible .
. .

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Skillful Analytics is key
whether the data is Big or Small
Problem Solving
Data
Context
Strategic Alignment
Big Data =
Volume
Variety
Velocity
© Lean IT Strategies

Two Analytics Approaches
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Problem first
Optimize the use of data to ask the right questions,
form the right hypotheses, design the right
experiments, and make informed decisions.
Data first “unsupervised machine learning”
Interpret emergent patterns with the right context
and purpose to yield useful insights and innovations.
Problem Solving
Data
Context
Strategic Alignment

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Mobile
experience
Inquiry,
Shopping, Order
Processing
Fulfillment &
Supply Chain
Customer
Support
Social media
analytics
R&D
Strategic
Partner
Systems
Development
Backlog and
Release
Schedule
Open
Innovation
Engineering,
Quality &
Compliance
Market
Research
Customer
Service
Operations
& Delivery
Product
Development
Source: Cutter IT Journal, Big Data and Lean Thinking,
Balancing Purpose, Process and People, Bell & Bell, June 2016
Problem Solving
Data
Context
Strategic Alignment
Seeing the Whole Value Stream
with Big and Small Data

Bridgestone Americas:
Only one data analyst was working in the credit division, then in 2014
he was promoted to director of analytics for Retail Operations
Analytics is now helping in diverse areas:
Select best locations for new stores
Automate inventory provisioning to 2,200 stores
Allocate 22,000 employees for peak demand
Analytics across the enterprise
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Source: MIT Sloan Research Report, 2017
Analytics as a Source of Business Innovation
Problem Solving
Data
Context
Strategic Alignment

Context Matters
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Problem Solving
Data
Context
Strategic Alignment
Apples Oranges
Fruit
Produce Seasonal
products
Food
products

Managers
Teams
Senior
Leaders
Team
Manager
Department
Manager
Division
Manager
Geography
Manager
External
Partners
Customers and
Consumers
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Value Stream
Problem Solving
Data
Context
Strategic Alignment
Context Can Be Elusive

A Value Stream Steward* transforms a
group of participants into a team
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• Help them understand who the customer is and what they want
• Help them understand the strategic context and develop a shared purpose
• Help them visualize and streamline the process
• Help them identify and respond to abnormalities and new conditions
• Help them select the right problems and design the right experiments
(including digitization technologies)
• Help them sort out the data and establish useful metrics
• Help develop technical capabilities within the team
Problem Solving
Data
Context
Strategic Alignment
Value Stream
* Also known as: Product Owner,
Chief Engineer, Service Manager, Tribe Lead© Lean IT Strategies https://youtu.be/gsmw9CldJwY

Managers
Teams
Senior
Leaders
Team
Manager
Department
Manager
Division
Manager
Geography
Manager
External
Partners
Customers and
Consumers
Omnichannel context:
Meta Value Stream
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Value Stream
Value Stream
Value Stream
Value Stream
Omnichannel
Source: Cutter IT Journal, Accelerate and Scale Digitization
with Lean Leadership Practices, Bell and Bell, February 2017
Problem Solving
Data
Context
Strategic Alignment

Strategic Alignment
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Problem Solving
Data
Context
Strategic Alignment

Good strategy honestly acknowledges the challenges
being faced and provides an approach to overcoming
them. It creates new strengths through subtle shifts in
viewpoint. A good strategy has coherence.
Bad strategy tends to skip over pesky details such as
problems – it ignores the power of choice and focus, trying
instead to accommodate a multitude of conflicting
demands and interests. A bad strategy has multiple goals
and initiatives that ‘symbolize progress’.

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• High level Hoshin is not very prescriptive
• Aligns strategy and execution by understanding
the essence of what we are trying to achieve
• Focus on projects with clear contribution
• Engage all levels of the company
• Give special attention to closing the loop with
Check/Act (PDCA) Stages
• DO THE RIGHT THINGS
Pierre Masai, CIO
Toyota Europe
Problem Solving
Data
Context
Strategic Alignment
Hoshin Kanri* at Toyota
* also known as Strategy Deployment© Lean IT Strategies https://youtu.be/gsmw9CldJwY

Hoshin Kanri is a Simple, Scalable Pattern
Value Stream
Value Stream
Value Stream
Value Stream
Omnichannel
Problem Solving
Data
Context
Strategic Alignment
• Deployment and execution of a vital few strategic
imperatives
• PDCA cascades down, up and across the enterprise,
engaging all decision making contexts
• Solve problems in locally relevant organizational
contexts
• Align problem solving and project investments towards
clear strategic intent
• Focus on what you need to improve rather than what
you can improve
• Promotes dialogue and shared learning,
validated by experiments and data
PDCA

Hoshin Kanri in the Digital Age
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• Leadership must set a bold challenge, and focus on a
vital few strategic imperatives
• The relationships among physical and digital, products,
services, channels, partners and customers are dynamic
• Everyone must understand the essence of what they are
trying to achieve, engaging all levels of the extended
enterprise
• Models and behaviors for prioritization, problem solving
and decision making must be fluid – not overly
prescriptive or rigid
SpaceX first stage
booster recovery at
Cape Canaveral
Feb 19, 2017
See the video: The Lean Management System and
Agile-at-Scale, 2015 Lean IT Summit http://bit.ly/2madGbvLITS© Lean IT Strategies

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• Improve Quality before Speed
• Emphasize capability development for
sustainable performance and adaptation
• Use patterns and practices as guideposts,
but make them your own
• Value human interaction, not just the data
• Make continuous learning part of your DNA
Reflections on the Digital Lean
Enterprise Journey Ahead

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Steve Bell Karen Whitley Bell
www.LeanITStrategies.com
www.DigitalLeanEnterprise.com

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