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Lean Management of IT Organizations

  • Lean Management has been successfully applied by companies around the world, mainly in production/manufacturing functions. Recently, the interest to investigate a wider application of Lean Management especially in service functions increased. However, it is not clear how Lean Management can be applied to IT organizations. Therefore, this study aims to provide an overview on common characteristics and future research directions. A literature review on existing scholarly research from January 2004 to June 2014 is conducted. Using a database-driven search approach, a total of 1,206 research contributions are found of which 49 were identified as relevant. Results indicate a low theory grounding of mostly formulative and interpretative research items. This implies that research on Lean Management of IT organizations is still at its nascent state. Content-wise, five research themes emerge. The majority of research investigates IT organizations in a role to support Lean Management in production/manufacturing functions (determining “what to work on”), therefore more research on how Lean Management can be applied to IT organizations themselves (determining “how to work”) could be beneficial. Future research could also try to build on Change Management theories, as the implementation of Lean Management is of transformational character.

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Author:Jörn Kobus, Markus WestnerORCiDGND
URL / DOI:https://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1084&context=pacis2015
Parent Title (English):Proceedings of the 19th Pacific Asia Conference in Information Systems (PACIS 2015), Singapore, Jul 5-9
Subtitle (English):A Literature Review
Document Type:conference proceeding (article)
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2015
Release Date:2019/12/12
Tag:Application development; Application maintenance; Information systems; Information technology; Infrastructure services; Lean IT; Lean Management; Lean knowledge work; Lean services
GND Keyword:Lean Management; Informationstechnik
Pagenumber:16
Institutes:Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik
Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik / Regensburg Strategic IT Management (ReSITM)
research focus:Digitalisierung