To win in today’s knowledge economy, organizations must learn and adapt faster than their competitors. While the world is getting more complex, faster, and more uncertain, our ways of managing work have changed little since the old industrial days.  Most organizations fail to learn systematically because of cultural obstacles to learning, because people are overwhelmed by complexity, and because they have no system in place for continuous improvement.

In this session we will discuss how Lean Management promises to impact the IT sector just as dramatically as it revolutionized the world of manufacturing.  In addition to improved financial performance and faster product development, Lean yields competitive advantages for employers who want to attract, develop, and make good use of human talent.  It also creates a more rewarding workplace for employees, involving them on a deeper level to innovate, solve problems, and shape the organization’s future.

Agenda

0:830 Networking and coffee
09:00 Presentation
09:30 Q&A
10:30 Wrap-up

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About the speaker:

Frode Odegard is the founder and CEO of the Lean Software Institute, a global consulting group helping IT organizations adopt Lean Management. He has more than twenty years of experience as an entrepreneur and trusted advisor to high-tech executives. Organizations he has helped include Sony Electronics Inc., NASA, Lockheed Martin, Candle, Conexant Systems, Mindspeed, and Plantronics. Frode is currently writing a book on Lean for the Software Enterprise.

Frode is the founder of five companies. He grew up in Norway and immigrated to the United States shortly after starting his first software company in high school. He has lived in California for twenty years, but spends about half his time overseas. His interests outside work include languages, history, philosophy, psychology, and strength training. Frode is an avid GTD practitioner and advocate, and helped organize the world’s first GTD tweetup in Oslo in September 2009. He remains active on Twitter as @odegard.

LSI Norway contact:

Oystein Paulsen, Director of Business Development, Norway

Phone: +47 993 39 338