TY - BOOK AU - Plenert,Gerhard J TI - Lean management principles for information technology SN - 9781420078602 U1 - 658.4038 PY - 2012/// CY - Boca Raton PB - CRC Press KW - Business enterprises KW - Computer network resources KW - Information resource management KW - Economic aspects KW - Information technology KW - Management N1 - The book provides tools and understanding to make better decisions, increase efficiencies, and make IT a major force in delivering sustainable improvements to supply chain. It introduces some of the most powerful Lean tools and techniques and supplies a methodology for implementing them to reduce waste in IT environment. The text reviews the major management challenges facing IT and illustrates solutions with stores, examples, and case studies of how Lean IT has led to unprecedented improvements in the private and government sectors. Demonstrating how to structure the components of IT system in accordance with Lean, the book details the measures required to achieve and sustain a world class Lean It supply chain management system ER -