IDC PlanScape: Lean Principles to Identify Modernization Candidates

This IDC PlanScape details the urgency for organizations and their leaders to consider and make concrete modernization of legacy systems and processes. "Depending on the age, condition, and their ability to change and adapt, legacy technologies could represent a significant barrier to the adoption and use of new technologies, methods, and tools," says Niel Nickolaisen, adjunct research advisor for IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP).

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Executive Summary

Why Are Lean Principles to Identify Modernization Candidates Important?

What Are Lean Principles to Identify Modernization Candidates?

Who Are the Key Stakeholders?

How Can My Organization Take Advantage of Lean Principles to Identify Modernization Candidates?

• Where in Legacy Systems Might Waste Exist?
  • Rework
  • Motion
  • Overprocessing
  • Excess Inventory/Overproduction
  • Waiting
• The Non-Lean Characteristics of Modernization Candidates
  • Using Cycle Times to Identify Modernization Candidates
  • Using Errors to Identify Modernization Candidates
  • Using Flow to Identify Modernization Candidates (Friction and Flow)
  • Using Capacity Creation to Identify Modernization Candidates

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