Lean IT
Preparing for renewed growth: Setting strategy for IT and the business

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Think Lean

Lean IT is an approach to process improvement that can help you deliver the most value to your customers. Its central concern is the elimination of waste — work that doesn’t add value to a product or service.

Lean principles focus on optimizing the 'value stream' — the flow of value to the customer. In Lean IT, the value stream often translates to customer-facing or revenue-driving applications.

Be Lean

 
Masters of Lean IT

Learn how 3 visionary IT executives maximized value and minimized waste
(280 KB PDF)

 
Hear how Intuit’s CIO has embraced Lean IT

CA Leadership Award for Innovation in Lean IT
(04:07)

Achieve Lean

By improving the performance of applications and automating related business and IT processes, you can achieve maximum value at minimum cost.

CA’s Enterprise IT Management solutions enable Lean IT by providing:

  • Insight to identify opportunities to reduce waste
  • Visibility into applications and services, so cost can be reduced and quality improved
  • The ability to optimize, automate and integrate processes across the silos of IT management

 

 

The Pragmatic Approach

White Papers:
The Case For Lean IT
Enterprise IT management software is a critical enabler of Lean IT (371 KB PDF)

Lean IT — Waste Not, Want Not
Strategies to reduce 8 elements of waste in IT (682 KB PDF)

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Streamline governance, risk and compliance processes for accelerated growth and profitability.

Articles:
CIOs Discover 'Smart' Way to Become Lean

Going Lean — Smart Enterprise Magazine

Lean IT Can Maximize Value and Minimize Cost

FAQ: Lean thinking for IT Requires Registration Leaving CA

Gartner Report:
Moving lean from the plant to the IT organization Requires Registration

Presentation:
Maximum Value at Minimum Cost
Learn how our Enterprise IT Management solutions can enable Lean IT (1.2 MB PDF)

Podcast:
Business Driven Automation and Lean IT Leaving CA

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