"Do" Lean or "Be" Lean in IT?

Lean & IT « IT Business Alignment (IT2B)

The author of the linked post, Glenn Whitfield, makes some excellent general points about Lean for any setting

Toyota does not have a ‘Lean initiative.’ Toyota does not ‘do’ Lean, they ‘are’ Lean. It’s just the way they do business. Implementing the tools of Lean will get you results, and will help move you toward becoming a Lean organization, but Lean is bigger than the tools.

So, as IT organizations move to embrace Lean thinking, the question becomes, “Are you going to ‘do’, Lean, or are you going to ‘BE’ Lean?”

Great questions for factories, or hospitals….