Takashi Tanaka, Dassault Systemes

While working for Toyota Engineering Co., Takashi Tanaka implemented many TMS (Toyota Management System) tools at various industries, not only automobile but also airplane, mobile phone, fashion, design studio, chemical and medicine. When he worked with Boeing Company, Takashi noticed the need for digital Oobeya for global product development. Since he joined Dassault System, he has been developing not only Digital Oobeya, but also digital formatted Cost planning and Quality into process for embedded software development. Lean cost planning by Takashi Tanaka at the...

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...

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...

Michael Jones, eBay

Michael leads a team serving eBay’s continental European markets with content management, content strategy, tools & process expertise. Our content enables the business to inspire, advise and engage buyers and sellers, maintaining consistency across markets and languages. Formally, Michael worked for over decade in customer service, gaining frontline experience as an agent, process and project management and building up and running a European team of specialists looking after eBay’s online self service. Michael is based in...

Indranil Das, Ericsson India Global Serv...

Indranil is working as Vice President, Solution Design & Delivery responsible for leading Ericsson’s business within Global Services Center India for global clients in Telecommunication, Media & Entertainment and Utilities. He comes with very rich experience in Global Delivery, Communication and ICT services. Before joining Ericsson, Indranil worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers and IBM where he was instrumental in pioneering global delivery model. Indranil is a member of the Ericsson’s Global Services Leadership team driving organization vision, long term...

An IT manager goes to the gemba to engag...

How do you know if your teams and managers are aligned with your objectives? How do you get your teams to progress and better serve their users? An IT production manager at BNP Paribas will explain his challenge with involving his first-line managers in this process, and what he learned along the way.