Michael Orzen

About Michael Orzen

Michael Orzen CMA, CFPIM, PMP, LITP has been called the “Father of Lean IT.” With more than 25 years’ experience in coaching and consulting in the IT space, Mike’s enthusiasm for continual improvement and Enterprise Excellence methods help build a healthy organizational culture throughout the enterprise as well as within IT. Mike has a proven track record of creating the conditions for sustaining positive change and engagement throughout the organization.Mike’s skill is in applying mindfulness and respect to create an effective CI culture. He is a master coach to executives, middle managers and students around the world. He is Teaching Fellow with The Shingo Institute for Enterprise Excellence and a faculty member of the Lean Enterprise Institute. As founder of Mike Orzen & Associates, he shares his passion for transforming organizations through respectfully engaging people, improving business process capability and leveraging technology to enable a culture of Enterprise Excellence.His career spans the evolution of enterprise-wide information technology, with hands-on experience in continuous improvement and innovation in IT working with the business across many industries. This includes the successful application of lean, agile and DevOps in service, banking, insurance, apparel, manufacturing, healthcare, aerospace and food & beverage. Considered a pioneer of Lean applied to information and technology, Mike is coauthor of the award-winning books “Lean IT: Enabling and Sustaining Your Lean Enterprise” and “The Lean IT Field Guide.”Please see the list of satisfied clients at mikeorzen.com/client-list and testimonials atmikeorzen.com/testimonials/.

Experience

1. Faculty Member

   Lean Enterprise Institute

   Jan 2007 — Present

   Lean Training and coaching - Lean IT, Lead with Respect, Lean Coaching, Lean Transformation; frequent contributor to the Lean Post Blog. Mike has spoken and taught at numerous LEI workshops and summits and is an active member of the faculty.

Education

• Stanford University

  BA, Economics

  1977 — 1980

• University of Oregon Lundquist College of Business

  MBA, Finance & Management

  1985 — 1987

Skills

• Healthcare
• Quality Management
• Lean Thinking
• Management
• Project Management
• Process Engineering
• Consulting
• Black Belt
• Strategy
• Management Consulting
• Certified Project Manager
• Kaizen
• Kanban
• Value Stream Mapping
• Systems Thinking
• Process Improvement
• Executive Coaching
• Procurement
• Training
• Lean Manufacturing
• Change Management
• Enterprise Software
• Continuous Improvement
• Culture Change
• Lean Management
• Supply Chain
• 5s
• Balanced Scorecard
• Manufacturing
• Business Transformation
• Industrial Engineering
• Erp
• Accounting
• Lean IT
• Toyota Production System
• Performance Improvement
• Business Process Mapping
• Business Process Improvement
• Service Industries
• Tqm