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Lean thinking is about understanding how to assess business processes, to identify and eliminate waste. Today, many IT professionals stakeholders from cross-functional areas -operational, tactical and strategic — have or are planning to get certified in Lean IT with the objective of reducing waste and improving efficiency.

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Lean IT Association (LITA) is a non-profit organization founded by three Accredited Training Organizations (ATOs) – ITpreneurs, Pink Elephant, Quint Wellington Redwood and three Examination Institutes (EIs) – APMG, EXIN, PEOPLECERT International Ltd.

LITA aims to provide an industry-standard set of Lean IT reference materials, IT best practices and other resources for practitioner organizations to use.

LITA aims to provdide a clear understanding of the value and positioning of Lean IT relative to other bodies of knowledge, frameworks and standards.

LITA aims to provdide a certification scheme aimed at practitioner organizations looking to adopt Lean IT principles in the IT Service development and operations department as well as professionals that want to be certified in Lean IT on various levels.

For the most part, Lean can be interpreted as an operations strategy; a way to design, transform and run your business maximizing Customer value and reducing waste.

Originating from Henry Ford's moving assembly line in the early 19th century and additionally inspired by the Toyota Production System with the addition of Deming's work in quality, Lean evolved in the 90's through adoption of Lean in other industries into Lean IT today.

Lean offers fundamental concepts for today's business: from design and initial set-up to operations and transformation. These concepts revolve around establishing long term results for customers and stakeholders, enterprise wide process capability building and alignment, cultural enablers for sustainable success and continuous improvement involving everyone, every day everywhere.

Lean companies are more successful than non-lean companies in terms of business value and retaining talent, and their success is more sustainable over time.

Lean continuously evolves, as it adapts to any new context it is applied to. The domain of Information Technology is one of the fastest, accelerating business domains we see in the world.

Therefore there can only be a working definition of Lean for IT, a set of hypotheses, to emphasize its evolving character in a fast changing business. Since the set of current hypotheses are widely stretched, we see a variety of meaningful interpretations on several levels.

Organizations today need to be in control and optimize their daily business, but additionally they need to innovate on their business models and technologies. Lean IT offers a strong, well-founded solution for both these challenges.

Lean revolves around principles for operational excellence, for customer centricity, for strategy deployment, for management of change and transition, for team and individual behavior and motivation