Forrester: - Making Leaders Successful Every Day

Lean is the right way to deliver Agile, fit-to-purpose, efficient solutions, and it's a big change from how the business and IT typically work together today. Join Forrester Research analysts for live presentations and Q&A on Lean: The New Business Technology Imperative via TelePresence. Together, we'll examine Lean as a way of thinking and working mandated by today’s reality:

• Business innovation is hard to enable. To survive is to innovate, but building environments that foster innovation requires radical changes to traditional business and engineering structures — moving from traditional approaches that focus on efficiency and throughput to ones that encourage collaboration and partnership.
  
• Bloatware reigns. Whether it’s excessive weight and complexity in applications, processes, or information management, the bloated solutions that we use today often hinder business results. Most enterprises suffer from overweight application and information infrastructure and overly complex processes that are hard to change and only loosely linked to today’s top business concerns.
  
• Fit-to-purpose is the new mantra. Becoming Lean is the antidote to the bloatware problem, but Lean is more than a software development or process improvement methodology. The trend toward Lean has been building for years, but a global recession has accelerated that momentum.

Featured Speakers

Mike Gilpin Analyst	Guido Jouret Chief Technology Officer, Emerging Technologies Group Cisco Systems
Connie Moore Analyst Forrester Research, Inc.	Clay Richardson Analyst
Ted Schadler Analyst