Steve Bell, Lean IT Strategies

The New Frontier of Lean: The Digital Lean Enterprise In his talk, Steve will help leaders cut through the complexity and hype to focus on the three, key value-enablers of Digitization and Big Data, supporting informed strategy and execution to help large, established enterprises thrive in the digital-disruptor economy. On March 16, Steve and Karen will lead a masterclass, guiding participants in the development of an action plan tailored to their enterprise, to focus, leverage and scale key value-adding Digitization and Big Data analytics efforts aligned to their...

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...

Régis Medina, Institut Lean France

Régis is the main Lean IT expert in Europe. As a Lean coach specializing in IT projects, and a Partner at Operae Partners, he has been coaching teams for the past 6 years, helping them deliver their projects on time, with the expected quality and constantly focusing on the users’needs. Based on his coaching experience, he co-authored the first book in French about the practice of Lean management in IT: “La pratique du lean management dans l’IT”. Precursor of Agile software development in France, he has co-authored the first book about Agile in...

Marie-Pia Ignace, Institut Lean France

Biography: Marie-Pia Ignace is highly experienced in managing large operations in the service industry. She started her career as a station master at the French railway company. Twelve years later, she was in charge of a business unit at Atos Origin, managing 2,800 persons distributed over 8 call centers. She launched one of the first French online banks. Subsequently, she built and deployed the first Lean program at BNP Paribas. Since then, she has conceived and deployed Lean management programs for other major European companies, engaging more than 4,000 people in IT,...

Michael Ballé, Institut Lean France

Author and Speaker, Michael is associate researcher at Telecom ParisTech, and holds a doctorate from the Sorbonne in Social Sciences and Knowledge Sciences. He has written several books and articles about the links between knowledge and management and more recently, co-authored two business novels published by the Lean Enterprise Institute, one about lean turnaround, “The Gold Mine” and one about lean transformation, “The Lean Manager”. He was awarded the Shingo Prize for both of them. More recently, he published “The Lean Management”...

Lean & Agile digital content

Early in 2013, we realised that we needed to change the way we manage operations and projects. Whilst the team was delivering, we knew that we’d be challenged to do more with less. Also, as the team had grown, colleagues no longer knew what each other was working on, leading to difficulty in coordination, morale and managing customer expectations. Starting with the team in Berlin, we are using a mixture of classic lean philosophy, lean startup and agile methodology to plan, deliver, evaluate and communicate our work. We are just a few months in and, although there is...