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• Part 3: Health Information Technology - Lean IT and HIT

  "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." Neil A. Armstrong, Apollo 11, July 20, 1969 With these two sentences, delivered in an utterly unforgettably straightforward but sublime manner, a decade's worth of scientific research... Posted Jul 22 2009, 11:56 AM by Steven Krementz with | with no comments Tags: lean IT, Best Practices, IT, Moon, John F. Kennedy, Information Governance, HIT, RAND, ONCHIT, Enterprise IT, HITECH

• Lean GRC: Leveraging the Concept of Pull Value

  In this short series of blog posts relating to Lean GRC, I have covered the first two major Lean Principles: " eliminate waste " and " focus on individuals who add value ." These are two key concepts that form the foundation of "Lean... Posted Jul 14 2009, 05:35 AM by Sumner Blount with | with no comments Tags: GRC, lean IT, Lean GRC, lean manufacturing, Sumner Blount, pull value

• Lean GRC: Focus on Individuals Who Add Value

  In an earlier blog posting , I introduced the topic of Lean GRC, an area that has started to get some attention recently. To summarize, it takes the principles of Lean Production (as exemplified by Toyota in the 90s), and applies them to risk management... Posted Jul 07 2009, 05:05 AM by Sumner Blount with | with 3 comment(s) Tags: GRC, lean IT, Best Practices, value, process, Lean GRC, Sumner Blount, process improvements, controls

• Information Governance: Strategy, Design, Implementation and Operations Part IV: Data Persistence and Entropy

  Entropy: It's not just a good idea, it's the law. In thinking about this week's post on data persistence, the 4th in a series on Information Governance, I recalled two distinct instances where the second law of thermodynamics had an impact... Posted Jun 15 2009, 05:30 AM by Steven Krementz with | with no comments Tags: lean IT, Best Practices, digital records management, entropy, Information Governance, data storage, regulatory requirements, data management

• The Four Main Principles of Lean GRC

  There has been a lot of attention given over the past few years, to "Lean Production Principles," as exemplified by the success of Toyota's manufacturing processes. In the late 1980s, Toyota adopted Lean Manufacturing and became a leader... Posted Jun 03 2009, 05:00 AM by Sumner Blount with | with 3 comment(s) Tags: Risk Management, GRC, lean IT, compliance, OCEG, reduce waste, Lean GRC, eliminate redundancy, lean manufacturing, Sumner Blount