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

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...