Lean ICT Operations

CASE: Use lean principles to drive Your IT and Network operations

  • TASK: In a globally distributed multivendor outsourced delivery context i.e. “a complex in-house cloud”
    • Global corporate e-mail system (and its help desk) availability and performance 
    • Global corporate ERP system (and its help desk) availability and performance

Focusing on

  • End User Experience measurement
  • Well defined Service product specifications from customer point of view
  • Production process cycle times and WIP through controllability analysis
  • Issue resolution times from customer point of view
  • Number of service outages and their MTTR–Consistent use of fresh quality data (less than 24 hours old) for faster and more accurate continuous improvement
  • Continuous and rapid reduction of incidents requiring management escalations

Resolving with an OEE based approach

  • End User Satisfaction improvement (Functionality)
  • Service Availability and Performance (Quality)
  • Continuous Performance improvement (Performance) through
  • • Hardware  resources assessment
  • • Networking resources assessment
  • • Leveraged  middleware (utitities) solutions assessment
  • • Levered High Availability solutions assessment
  • • Used IT security solutions
  • • required support resources and their performance

OEE = Overall Equipment Efficiency = Functionality * Quality " Performance