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Turning IT products into cost-efficient industrial goods means rethinking their production in terms of modern management principles. The following chapter will consider three core aspects on the path towards efficient IT production “factories”: The application of lean principles in IT, the optimization of data center operations, and the globalization of the value chain. The aspects and suggestions in this chapter owe a debt to the contributions of Chatrin et al. (2007), Chatrin (2011), Kaplan et al. (2009), and Forrest et al. (2008).
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Löffler, M., Reinshagen, F. (2014). The IT Product Factory. In: Abolhassan, F. (eds) The Road to a Modern IT Factory. Management for Professionals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40219-7_5
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