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Event Overview

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 Connie Moore and Ted Schadler 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.

Presentations

Why Lean Is The New Business Technology Imperative
Connie Moore, Vice President, Research Director

When maintenance eats 80% to 90% of IT budgets, it's time to examine Lean approaches like process frameworks, cloud computing, SaaS, Agile methodologies, open source, or other fresh ideas. And when the sheer complexity of technology overwhelms information workers, it's time to simplify and understand what workers really need to get their jobs done. Learn how your organization can embrace Lean and move into the next new era of IT: business technology — where business is technology and technology is business.

Make Workforce Personas Part Of Your Lean Technology Tool Kit
Ted Schadler, Vice President, Principal Analyst

Provisioning your workforce with the right technology is crucial to the success of any business. Forrester has harnessed its experience in market research to conduct the industry's first Workforce Technology Benchmark study. This research gives you a new tool to analyze, profile, and benchmark your workforce to optimize IT expenditures and maximize business technology success.

About TelePresence

Cisco TelePresence combines innovative real-time video, audio, and interactive technologies to give people in distributed global locations a wide variety of face-to-face collaboration experiences. TelePresence helps people meet, share content, create high-quality video recordings and events, consult with experts and deliver powerful personalized services, all using the power of the network for an immersive in-person experience.