Your customers want innovation and value, and they want it now. How
can you apply Lean principles and practices throughout your
enterprise to drive operational excellence, reduce costs while
improving quality, enable efficient growth, and accelerate
idea-to-value innovation? Shingo Prize-winning author Steve Bell
and other thought leaders show you how-guiding you to more
effectively align people and purpose, promote enterprise agility,
and leverage transformative IT capabilities to create
market-differentiating value for your customers. Combining research
and insight with practical examples and in-depth case studies that
can be put to immediate use, Run Grow Transform: Integrating
Business and Lean IT is a must read for leaders and senior managers
from all disciplines, showing you how to: Drive enterprise outcomes
and strategy through adaptive Business/IT learning Maximize
collaboration, leverage the knowledge and skills of your teams
Overcome enterprise-wise obstacles commonly encountered by Agile
development teams Improve infrastructure reliability and cost,
learn how to get the best results from operations frameworks
including ITIL, COBIT and ISO 20000 Apply Lean principles to
Enterprise Architecture and Business Process Management disciplines
Make informed, value-based choices about outsourcing Tap into big
data and social media to listen to and interact with the virtual
voice of your customers Streamline management, collaboration, and
communication systems Identify and measure the right things that
lead to customer value What readers are saying: This book focuses
on the most critical and challenging issue for any aspect of the
development or use of IT: creating a collaborative learning
culture. -Jeffrey K. Liker, Shingo Prize-winning Author of The
Toyota Way Run Grow Transform takes the next logical step to
driving enterprise value. This could be the game-changing playbook
for IT 3.0. -Mark Katz, CIO & Senior Vice President, Esselte
CorporationA powerful read detailing how companies can leverage
their Lean IT transformation to supercharge the business. -Tom
Paider, IT Build Capability Leader, Nationwide The consistent
application of the practices described in this book has enabled
Embraer to reap huge gains. I recommend this book as a desktop
companion. -Alexandre Baule, Vice President Information Systems,
Embraer ... takes the reader a leap forward, ready for immediate
application to bridge Lean and innovation.-Melissa Barrett,
Enterprise Architecture & IT Strategy, Premera Blue Cross ...
sets out the principles and practices necessary for success in the
new economy. -Jez Humble, Author of Continuous Delivery Steve Bell
has hit another home run with this book. Either your organization
will adopt the wisdom contained in this book and thrive, or your
competitors will do so and put you out of business. -Scott Ambler,
Author of Disciplined Agile Delivery It's rare to see truly new
insight added to the Lean discussion. Steve Bell does just that by
continuing to push the frontiers of Lean thinking. -Alexander
Brown, COO, Scrum Inc. Steve Bell has mapped a new trajectory. I
challenge any CIO to read Bell's breakthrough work and not be
compelled to start this journey to become a transformative leader
in the creation of real and sustainable value. -Jeffrey Barnes,
Society for Information Management (SIM), Regional Director,
Advanced Practices Council All too often the IT organization is
viewed as an impediment to lean transformation, when it truly can
be a catalyst. Steve's book sorts out all the noise, the jargon,
and the "hero culture", guiding the reader to what is so obvious,
yet so hard to see: build your culture around your customer! -Josh
Rapoza, Director of Web Strategy and Operations, Lean Enterprise
Institute Aligning Lean and IT is a great challenge with a big
payoff. This book really shows how Lean and IT can create a strong
enterprise; it's a great inspiration. -Klaus Lyck Petersen, Solar
A/S A must read for any organization that is pursuing continuous
improvement. In today's world, real business improvement cannot be
achieved without the IT factor; this book will help any
organization achieve the improvement that they are seeking. -Barry
J. Brunetto, Vice President, Information Systems, Blount
International Precise, concise, and entertaining, this book
provides the reader with crucial tips on how IT can help
enterprises survive and thrive in a fast-paced technological and
economic environment. This is mandatory reading not only for
businesses and IT organizations, but also for universities and
policy makers. -Fuat Alican, PhD, Vice President, Central American
Scientific Research and Education Center Not just for Lean
Practitioners, Run Grow Transform is a must-have reference for any
IT organization, regardless of size, age or industry, looking to
move to the next level of performance. -Sarah Topham, Lean
Deployment Leader, Information Technology & Product Management,
Paychex, Inc. This is a long overdue book that addresses the key
challenges for today's IT organization and puts Lean IT into a
context that is too often lacking. -James Finister, Tata
Consultancy Services The 'business as usual' scenario is not an
option in today's economy and global challenges. A transformation
in methods, tools and frameworks is needed to guide our business
decisions. This book is your first step! -Khuloud Odeh, IT
Director, Grameen Foundation Delivering beyond the helpful folk
wisdom and narrow techniques and technologies found elsewhere,
Steve Bell and his contributors provide practical full value stream
lifecycle methods for continuous improvement using Lean in an IT
and customer (business) setting. -Martin Erb, Director of
Professional Services, Pink Elephant Run Grow Transform clarifies
the eternal quest of IT: to simply "running" of the business and to
create innovative solutions to grow the business and create
sustainable competitive advantage to transform the way customers
interact with your business, in plain, actionable advice from one
who has been on the front lines.-Tom Foco, Value Stream Solutions
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