Steve Bell, author (most recently) of the book Run Grow Transform: Integrating Business and Lean IT is my guest for episode #161 of my podcast series. Steve is a fellow faculty member for the Lean Enterprise Institute and he is also a founder of Lean4NGO.org, working with non-profits in the developing world.
He is also founder of Lean IT Strategies, LLC, coaching IT professionals as they partner with their business colleagues to meet the challenges and exploit the opportunities in the rapidly changing, technology-enabled business landscape.
In this episode, Steve talks about:
- Why “Lean Thinking” is important in IT
- What is “Lean IT,” including some success stories
- How do agile, scrum, Lean IT, and Lean Startups fit together?
- His upcoming LEI workshop in San Francisco this February
- Lean4NGO initiative
Steve's Other Books:
- Lean Enterprise Systems: Using IT for Continuous Improvement
- Lean IT: Enabling and Sustaining Your Lean Transformation
For a link to this episode, refer people to www.leanblog.org/161.
For earlier episodes, visit the main Podcast page, which includes information on how to subscribe via RSS or via Apple Podcasts.
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Mark – thank you for pointing out this particular podcast. The commentary from Steve has helped me begin to sort out how Lean’s relevance fits in with several other IT management ideologies. I really do appreciate Steve articulating the difference in IT Ops vs. IT Development, thus a need to apply different approaches to each. Cheers!