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Lean management terminology - ITIL Tutorial
From the course: Learning Lean IT
Lean management terminology
- [Instructor] Here's the definition of traditional or push production. An IT example, a configuration management system where after changes are made to code, Essentials Server pushes the updates out to all nodes that require the update. A pull system, as used in Lean, is demand-driven. For example, a configuration management system setup where nodes run agents that ask Essentials Server if it has any updates it should run and pulls them if it does. So traditional management is push-driven. Production is forecast-driven, and items are produced to meet that forecast. Lean management is pull-driven. Production is demand-driven. Items are only produced when an order is placed. Cameron Ford and Joe Murli cite the six core elements of the Lean management system shown here. Let's have a look at the first three of these, which bear explanation. True North is an organization's strategic and philosophical vision or purpose, which may include hard business goals like revenue and profits and…
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