Benoît Charles-Lavauzelle, Theodo

How does Lean management help the startups grow? According to Benoît Charles-Lavauzelle, co-founder and CEO of mobile and web dev start up Theodo, the Lean practice is the perfect approach CEOs need to solve the issues their fast growing startups are faced with. He explained the benefits in terms of turnover growth as well as strategic alignment, team empowerment, anxiety transformed into creativity, ability to focus on the right issues and to solve them. He also explained why Lean management is complementary to Agile software development. Biography Benoît...

Sari Torkkola, Patria

Three years ago I had a successful career behind me. I was CIO of a defence and aerospace company running the corporate IT. I had great people in my team but they were burning out due to constant fire fighting and internal customers who after several gigantic improvement projects, concluded the service level as “IT sucks”. I then had to admit the traditional way of managing did not produce results for anybody. I started to look for something totally different and ended up googling the word “Lean” in October 2011. At first, I asked the supervisors in my team to...

Pascal Bedel, BNP Paribas

Pascal Bedel is Head of IT Architecture & Mutualized Services at the French leading bank, BNP Paribas. He manages teams of architects, engineers and administrators in the IT production service of the bank. He discovered Lean thinking and started deploying lean projects with his teams in 2012.