Change management lessons learned for Lean IT implementations

Authors

Jörn Kobus, OTH RegensburgFollow
Markus Westner, OTH RegensburgFollow
Susanne Strahringer, TU DresdenFollow

Abstract

Lean Management is a standard production mode that has been familiar to production organizations for several decades. To date, however, academic literature has presented surprisingly little information about the application of Lean Management in Information Technology (IT) organizations, or what is called Lean IT. Drawing upon an empirical qualitative case study of the IT departments of two multinational companies, in this paper we identify change management lessons learned for Lean IT implementations, as well as seven characteristics of a corresponding change management approach. As an extension of our work, researchers should validate and expand our initial findings, preferably in a quantitative setting.

Recommended Citation

Kobus, Jörn; Westner, Markus; and Strahringer, Susanne (2017) "Change management lessons learned for Lean IT implementations," International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management: Vol. 5: No. 1, Article 4.
Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/ijispm/vol5/iss1/4