Emerging Technologies 19 August 2020 1 MIN

LeanIX: Moving from project-based thinking to product-based thinking

em360tech image

LeanIX: Moving from project-based thinking to product-based thinking

LeanIX GMBH

Today, many companies are realising the benefit of product-based thinking, allowing them to tailor the process to their key differentiators and gain an advantage over competitors. While project thinking focuses on coming up with solutions up-front and delivering against a schedule, product thinking keeps the focus on the outcome.

In this podcast, Arie van Bennekum speaks to André Christ, CEO and Co-Founder at LeanIX, about this holistic shift in thinking to better align IT and business leadership. André begins the podcast by explaining what drives this movement towards a product-based strategy and what it means for an agile IT organisation. He also provides examples of the challenges organisations will face and how to measure the success of moving to product-based thinking. Finally, André outlines how this impacts enterprise architecture, how to govern it, and what is meant by actionable EA.

LeanIX boosts companies’ growth and enables digital transformation by establishing a SaaS-based information hub for their IT architecture. Its focus is controlling and reducing complexity in IT landscapes. Core of the Enterprise Architecture Management solution is an intelligent IT inventory that makes up-to-date information and planning for the IT landscape easily accessible for all relevant staff. At the same time, supporting IT managers’ decision making and performance is of prime importance for LeanIX. Besides the focus on benefits for the organisation, the needs of each single user are paramount. The mission of LeanIX is to end the era of complicated enterprise software.