From my IBM UK colleague, Sunil Aggarwal, comes this rather useful post about IBM BPM and lean techniques: -
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Recently I have seen a resurgence of customers adopting lean techniques in their projects. In general, these have been very successful due to speed of delivery, quality of deliverables and output, and the ability to drive fundamental change to the business process being implemented. The result is significant and can offer quantitative cost reduction.
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