Cloud provides Agility

Read somewhere recently the agility that cloud provides

"One of the most important benefits provided by cloud technologies is agility. The business and IT support are more agile. Users are able to connect to services more quickly, with fewer mistakes and greater consumption. IT is more flexible. Cloud solutions provide IT with the ability to support users from anywhere at any time, adapt to business and market demands, and manage projects with greater efficiency. Business owners can create and manage services they deem necessary. Business users can consume these services much more quickly. And IT is free to be more innovative. The speed of delivery and ease of use improves the business and enables self-sufficiency. Accessibility to knowledge is increased, and the process now adds value rather than a burden. Cloud solutions provide a more agile way to empower the business."

Lean IT is a culture change

I often get asked 'As per Lean IT, what the things that we should implement?'

But what people tend to forget is Lean IT is not a magic tool that can be implementeted and you begin reaping the benefits than after.

Lean IT is about analyzing your proces, your operations, your efforts, your work and people--and understanding what are waste in your process/operations/work/people and removing the waste.

Unless you analyze and understand the waste, you can not implement any improvements.

Please understand that Lean IT is about empowering the frontline resources and bringing in a change in the culture of your organization or operations that focuses on waste removal!!

What should be considered before adopting cloud?

Don’t you wonder what you should do before rolling out cloud solutions? Well, a wired article provides some few guiding principles as you start your cloud journey.

1.     Set clear objectives.

2.     Consider when (and whether) to integrate existing data and systems.

3.     Research solutions online and start for free.

4.     Consider all costs, not just initial purchase price.

Why adopt Cloud?

Read an interesting article. It listed the five reasons for which makes business decision makers feel the cloud is critical to their businesses’ success:

1.     Cloud offers better insight.

2.     Cloud helps collaboration.

3.     Cloud drives better engagement.

4.     Speed!

5.     Cloud benefits are measurable and pay for themselves.

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Process Improvement Methodologies---Organizations should decide

Very often, people tend to ask “which is the best improvement methodology to adopt?’

Though my bet lies with Lean, but I would say “it actually depends on what exactly does your organization need”. People are usually confused about the most spoken and used improvement methodologies – Lean, Six Sigma and Theory of Constraints (TOC).

I recently read an article which very interestingly differentiate the three as shown below:

Process Improvement Methodologies	Focus	Result
Six Sigma	focus on reducing variation and  achieving uniform process results in less waste, less throughput time and less inventory	If we focus on reducing variation,   then we will have more uniform process output.
Lean	focus on waste and flow time results in less variation, uniform output and less inventory	If we focus on waste removal, then flow time will improve.
TOC	focus on constraints and increased throughput results in less inventory and a different accounting system	If we focus on constraints, then throughput volume will improve.