IT has reached an unprecedented level of complexity, and organizations heavily reliant on IT risk greater variability in performance and significantly lower customer satisfaction. The Lean continuous-improvement methodology addresses these challenges. Lean methodology has been successfully deployed in IT operations having overcome two major hurdles: IT work is less repeatable and less directly observable or measurable than traditional engineering processes.
What we do
Our application of Lean methodology takes an end-to-end view, starting with the IT customer. This ensures that improvement occurs across all IT processes. Our approach has proven to have significant and lasting impact for both providers and insourcers.
In our last 50 data center transformations, we have achieved very significant productivity improvements. In all cases, quality of service and employee satisfaction also improved significantly. For example, the average time to restore services has fallen by 50–80 percent, and SLA compliance has risen by 5–10 percent.
By applying Lean principals to application maintenance and development we have helped clients to improve productivity by 15–25 percent, and time-to-market has fallen by up to 25 percent.
We help clients drive higher quality and productivity by taking IT infrastructure, application development, and maintenance work practices and moving them toward a set of consistent standards that drive higher quality and productivity. We bring about real change by working closely with the frontline staff and management teams over 16–24 weeks to capture and sustain this impact.
We focus on the four core elements of balanced performance improvement:
- Operating practices
We use a proven set of levers to enhance the way physical assets and resources are configured and optimized to create value and minimize losses.
- Management systems
We optimize the structures, processes and systems through which performance is managed to deliver business objectives.
- Mindsets and behaviors
We focus on how to change the way people think, feel and conduct themselves in the workplace.
- Organization and capabilities
We ensure the organization enables and sustains the transformation and that individuals have the skills and knowledge to deliver on their responsibilities.