Lines of Business – LOB: Technology Budget Roles

Introduction  Technology professionals are evolving from traditional centralized IT activities into strategic roles, within focused business lines of business (LOB) structures, with direct technology-spend budget responsibilities. LOB is an organizational concept comprised of individual business units that support the creation, promotion, sales, and management of industry-centric industry sectors. Today, organizations Read more…

Kaizen: Continuous Improvement Action Plan & Philosophy

Introduction  Kaizen is the Japanese word for “improvement,” and in business activities, Kaizen describes the structured analysis activities supporting continual workplace improvement that involve all employees. The goal of Kaizen is proactively improving work processes and operations to eliminate waste across all organizational boundaries without regard to silos commonly found Read more…