Technology Aligned Technology. Improved Systems. . With ever shortening technology life-cycles, pressure is mounting on embedded IT organizations, software companies, and information technology outsourcing firms to accelerate development and deployment of new technology solutions while keeping investment at a minimum. Moreover, information technology and sharing of information are pivotal to enabling strategy execution and business performance. For these reasons Mindstream applies Lean Sigma, the fusion of today’s most powerful improvement tools – Lean and Six Sigma, in application development, project management and network operations. Mindstream’s Lean Sigma Information Technology management methodology is founded on the following principles: Technology is a key resource for sharing information, data and best practices; enabling large scale transformation. Organizations must build the capability to rapidly develop and deploy technology solutions and improve existing systems. Relentlessly eliminate waste – unfinished work, delays, extra steps, minimal code versus over-production, task switching, defects, motion, chronic down time, unused features, etc – which do not directly add value for the customer. Accelerate results and transformation with collaborative, cross-functional iterations – Sigma Kaizen Breakthrough Methodology. If you need to build new capabilities within your IT organization, empower and align IT resources with end users, minimize capital expense or increase functionality and usability, Mindstream’s Lean IT solution can help.