Talk of Lean and Agile is back in the limelight with leaders Digite a developer of Lean/Agile Products to help with Product Management. Recent announcements have indicated that Digite is providing something called Swift-Kanban to non-profit organisations for free at no cost. This is great news for NPO’s as it will increase innovation and creativity allowing investment to be used else.
Mr David J. Anderson used the kanban Method to create Swift-Kanban being a result of pure creativity and innovation where many organizations have been waiting for something like this for a long time.
Over recent years Lean and Agile has started to become more main stream and news like this will only help the awareness increase resulting in reduction in costing.

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The Swiss Company Abatron AG is a new member of the eNsemble(TM) Multi-Core Alliance. The eNsemble(TM) Multi-Core Alliance is a leader in the parallel processing of multi-core platforms and software development. The Alliance brings together leading hardware and software providers with offerings of a wide expertise, this is a universal area allowing software developers to discuss and exchange ideas resulting in leading innovated solutions serving on a wide stage.

Max Vock, President of Abatron AG stated he is pleased to be part of this Alliance allowing Abatron AG to maintain supporting of innovation in multi-core processing platforms.

NetLogic Microsystems’s executive vice president and general manager said “Abatron provides tools that are important to the development of multi-core systems, and we welcome Abatron as a valuable member of the eNsemble Multi-Core Alliance”.

Having a alliance in a particular field is a very Lean Approach in increasing innovation and creativity in this case bringing together leaders in parallel processing. Shared services outsourcing would reduce costs allowing companies to advance specialising in particular fields even further.

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With much talk now going on how cloud computing is to double by 2012, do people really understand cloud as is it not just one up from software outsourcing in a new wrapper that has been effectively been around since the 1980’s or earlier which is an element of Lean?

If outsourcing was more driven and recognised in organisations and businesses sooner maybe we would have got to this stage sooner even 10 years sooner.

Over the last couple of years Lean has been much talked about across organisations and businesses where everyone must become think Lean be Lean but elements of Lean have been used for decades.

What our real challenge is how we ensure these workings are Green Orientated Solutions with the advancement of the term ‘Green Computing’. The term ‘Green Computing’ has been around for many years I think we need to focus more on this when creating and building any wide solution and this would consequently complement the term giving this a larger mainstream workings.

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