As a board member in a software company, you are focused on making sure that your CEO and management team is executing the articulated strategy and meeting the targets you have agreed upon. As part of your fiduciary duties, you are no doubt keeping an eye on trends and information that could be relevant to this.
Originating with Toyota, the Lean Management methodology has been used to achieve significant gains in operating performance across a range of industries, including IT. Key benefits in the IT sector include cost reductions from eliminating non-value-added work, must faster product development, happier customers, and improved workforce engagement. The Lean methodology can be used to improve every function in the business and a transformation can be organized to focus on what will yield the biggest improvement in operating performance.
Resources for Directors
- Whitepaper: For more information about Lean and operating performance in software companies, please download our white paper “Lean Execution: Six Questions for Software Executives” (no registration required).
- Case study interview: How we helped a software company improve its product development performance. Listen to an in-depth interview.
- Assessments and Briefings: The Lean Systems Institute provides customized assessments and briefings to directors and C-level executives to explore how Lean might improve operating performance in their companies. For a confidential discussion, please contact us.
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