Steve Bell

Steve Bell is the founder of Lean IT Strategies, LLC, coaching IT professionals as they partner with their business colleagues to meet the challenges and exploit the opportunities in the rapidly changing, technology-enabled business landscape. His newest book, Run Grow Transform: Integrating Business and Lean IT, (Productivity Press, 2012) illustrates how to leverage transformative IT capabilities into enterprise value streams to drive innovation and create market-differentiating customer value. He is the co-author of Lean IT: Enabling and Sustaining Your Lean Transformation (Productivity Press, 2010) which received the 2011 Shingo Prize for Research and Professional Publication. He is the author of Lean Enterprise Systems: Using IT for Continuous Improvement (Wiley, 2006) which first introduced the term "Lean IT" in publication. This book focuses on the proper application of ERP and other enterprise-wide systems in a Lean environment. In addition to his work leading Lean IT transformation, Steve is actively involved in the Non-profit and NGO community. Founder of Lean4NGO (www.Lean4NGO.org), his mission is to make Lean Thinking accessible to humanitarian aid organizations, improving NGO operational efficiency (use of scarce resources) and effectiveness (improved outcomes) to benefit the three billion people living at the "bottom of the pyramid" on less than $2 a day.