Masterclass: Applying Lean to Leverage Big Data & Accelerate Your Digital Transformation

The nature of IT, and its relationship to the enterprise and its customers, is continuously changing. Technology leaders are now being asked to guide their organization through several disruptive transformations, all at once:

– Streamlining and digitizing existing processes,

– Creating new digitally-enabled business models, technology platforms, and innovative new products and services,

– Leveraging Big Data Analytics to gain new insights into customer experience and value.

All the while, leaders must cultivate technology vision, and develop basic technology capabilities in every individual, team, and manager, across the enterprise.

For decades, Lean principles and practices have improved value and performance across virtually every industry. They are the basis of Agile, Scrum, DevOps, and Agile-at-Scale. Now it’s time to focus Lean on the myriad challenges of digital transformation.

In this masterclass, Steve Bell and Karen Whitley Bell, drawing from research, case studies, and practice, will show IT and enterprise leaders and practitioners approaches to apply Lean principles and practices to utilize and improve Big Data value, and accelerate enterprise digital transformation, to:

• Better understand and engage customers
• Identify market trends and consumption patterns, and
• Improve enterprise performance for greater value

We’ll apply this learning through group discussions, hands-on A3 problem solving and other exercises applied to your enterprise’s current state.

In this Masterclass you’ll learn how to:

• Apply Big Data to transform Lean practice
• Apply Lean practices to leverage Big Data capabilities
• Cost effectively begin a new, or expand a current, Big Data practice, scaled to your enterprise and budget
• Address the challenge of Big Data expert resource constraints, and increase Big Data capability and utilization throughout the enterprise
• Merge Lean Startup, Lean Operational Excellence, and Lean Product and Software Development practices into a continuous cycle of innovation and commercialization
• Adapt Lean Management System practices to a digital ecosystem
• Lead change in the enterprise to successfully adopt and leverage Big Data and Digitization capabilities throughout the enterprise

Masterclass takeaways will include initial drafts of A3 experiments to take back to your organization, to stimulate learning and experimentation