From push to pull in IT: learning to create value for users is not a long, quiet river

From push to pull in IT: learning to cre...

Pushing tools to users and complaining that they didn’t use them was easy enough. But when we started asking ourselves whether we were solving the right problems, and how to create value and measure this value creation, it turned out to be a rough path. Learn from Faurecia IT’s experience on this matter, and how IT can progressively move away from being a commodity provider to become a business partner. Faurecia is the 6th automotive equipment supplier worldwide and IT has to support Just in Time plants, Product launches, Month end closes, Purchasing processes...
Lean Data Center: A Telco Experience

Lean Data Center: A Telco Experience

Service Providers are complex organizations with several departments like IT, Service Support and Innovation. Andrea shared lessons from several Lean cases within Telecom Italia, the Italian leading Telco Service Provider. The experiences regard the Lean Data Center initiative and improvement of the Product Service Delivery and Service Assurance Processes. Andrea presented the approach he used and how he notably tailored Lean tools to a data center environment, the impact on people and the results he obtained. Specific issues of service environments were highlighted such...
Lean at support functions: from steering to supporting

Lean at support functions: from steering...

We hear a lot about optimizing (horizontal) value stream. However, the horizontal flow is quite determined by the efficiency of (vertical) support functions like HR, Finance, Quality, Purchasing, Staffing, etc. We decided to not accept it as given constraint and dig into it by triggering Lean@SupportFunctions initiative. We aim to improve the integration of the internal flow into the value stream and make the internal support functions value driven and business aware. In this presentation we share the results and experiences of applying the same Lean approach to the...
A company’s hoshin kanri journey: radical business transformation from traditional application services to disruptive innovation

A company’s hoshin kanri journey: ...

At the European Lean IT Summit 2012, Cesar Gon CEO of Ci&T, explained how he discovered Lean Thinking and started transforming his company’s culture. This year, Leonardo Mattiazzi, Ci&T Head of Europe and ASPAC operations, will focus on the innovation perspective of the lean journey: the difficulty of creating something truly innovative (disruptive) in a “business as usual” environment, the shortcomings they noticed in their planning process (hoshin kanri) relative to innovation using the concepts of “Lean Startup” – and its...
Catherine Chabiron, Institut Lean France

Catherine Chabiron, Institut Lean France

Catherine Chabiron is the former Director of IS Governance at Faurecia, a major French industrial group. For 8 years, she has worked at the heart of the Lean transformation of Faurecia’s IS department.   Join Catherine’s masterclass “Lean and Information Systems in today’s large corporations – what does it imply and how to manage it?” on 7 October 2015 to learn from her unique experience: The IS department of a lean corporation, sooner or later, will have to answer the question of how to contribute to the company’s overall Lean approach. This...
Bertrand Eteneau, Faurecia

Bertrand Eteneau, Faurecia

Bertrand Eteneau graduated in 1983 from the Ecole Centrale de Paris in Engineering specializing in Applied Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. Mr Eteneau started his professional career at IBM, where he worked for almost 10 years in various positions including the electronic components division as general manager and sales and marketing as international sales account manager. He then became CIO of the international transport branch of Group Bolloré and Chief Operating Officer of 3 Suisses. Between 2003 and 2005 he held the position of Vice President of Gartner France...