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The full version of this article was co-developed with CA communications Applying ‘Lean’ principles allow IT to identify and eradicate anything that is wasteful within IT management. A Service Catalog can be an indispensible component of Lean IT, helping drive down costs and ensure organisations are better positioned to lead when the economy recovers. LeanContinue reading “A Catalog of Ways to Achieve Lean IT”

Lean management has proven extremely successful in managing manufacturing operations. So much so, that people are now applying Lean to managing whole enterprises. Going forward this blog will focus specifically on applying he principles of lean management on Information Technology: Lean IT. Lean IT is not new, successes were documented already back in 2007 (LearningContinue reading “Let’s go Lean IT”

The full version of this article was co-developed with CA communications For years manufacturing has relied upon a central document called a Bill of Material, which describes, in minute detail, each component of the product. It serves as the foundation for design, procurement, manufacturing and distribution, and therefore as the foundation for companywide planning, costingContinue reading “CMDB, the “Bill of Material” of the IT factory”

The full version of this article was co-developed with CA communications In modern companies, IT and business processes are practically inseparable. A business transaction such as a an online banking transaction or making a mobile phone call are business services provided almost entirely through IT services. But also insurance companies, hospitals and government organizations haveContinue reading “IT services at the push of a button—simple to consume but hard to deliver?”

Any Genesis fans will immediatly realise the title of this blog dates me. In fact I finished my formal education more than three decades ago. And although I realised at the time that the study I did was quit innovatif, as it tried to combine economics and informatics theory into something we nowadays would callContinue reading “Selling Services by the Pound, a re-birth of economic thinking in IT”

Laws of IT is a new initiative that discusses serious IT matters in a entertaining way, using a variety of media such as web, video, blogs and discussion groups. In the first episode you meet Mr. Demand and Mr. Supply, exploring Service Portfolio Management and you will see Peter Hinssen, in a special appearance asContinue reading ““Laws of IT” explores Service Portfolio Management”

This article was first published in AutomatiseringGids on February 22, 2008 and is available in both the original Dutch and in English. All across Europe government spending on information technology is being scrutinized. For example the Dutch Government Accounting Office ’s suggested the introduction of a law comparable to the American Clinger-Cohen Act. The Clinger-CohenContinue reading “Lessons from a decade of Clinger-Cohen”

This “Lean IT – avant la lettre” article first appeared in January 2004 in the Dutch edition of Chief Financial Officer. For years the IT industry reacted to any question of customers and users with the introduction of yet another generation of new technology. But investing in ever more and ever faster technology is notContinue reading “The IT-dustrial revolution”