Reach your project target costs with lea...
Cost Planning is one of technique of cost management to accomplish target cost from earlier phase of project. I would like to explore the difference between Finance (Financial Accounting) and Cost planning (Management Accounting) and their distinct uses. While many companies implement Financial Accounting, few successfully implement Cost planning. Cost Planning is a proactive activity in which a company strives to achieve a target cost, starting this effort early in the concept and planning phase. In contrast, Financial Accounting centers on a results-based target, not an... The Toyota Way – Information syste...
Håkan describes Toyota Industries Business Practices (TIBP) applied to the IS function of Toyota Material Handling Europe. Showing how the Toyota values are applied in the IS operating model. Giving concrete example of how the Toyota I_Site software and blackbox solution were launched in the global market place using TIBP during the various phases of the development and deployment. IS delivering value to the business by Hakan Borglund Toyota MHE from Institut Lean France...
Lean Software Factory – Applying The Toy...
In 2011, Bouygues Telecom built a “software factory” to deliver software for its “boxes” (IPTV set-top boxes and internet routers). A Software Factory is a combination of tools and methods to promote automated building and testing, with a focus on configuration management. Since then, we have started a transformation journey, combining the ambition of agile software development and lean product/management culture. This talk focuses on the “factory” metaphor, since we have found that the way the software is built is as important as the software product itself... Lean implementation and management commi...
Throughout the implementation of Lean in a corporate structure the enthusiasm and drive of the individual co-workers are key. This is a resource that can be either harnessed and channeled, or squandered and lost. One of the key factors that determine how this enthusiasm is made effective, or if it is lost entirely, is management commitment to the implementation and to the Lean mindset. Here we will explore management commitment, not from a cost-benefit perspective, but from the individual success-perspective.