The Lean IT Association Certification Scheme
The Lean IT Certification Scheme consists of 4 distinct certifications for various levels, starting at entry level with
Lean IT Foundation and moving into
Lean IT Kaizen, climbing further up the ladder to
Lean IT Leadership or Coach. Each level introduces more knowledge and skills, eventually leading up to competences that enable a professional to support corporate introduction or development of Lean IT implementations.

Lean IT Foundation, Lean IT Kaizen and Lean IT Leadership are now available, Lean IT Coach will follow later.
Helps IT organizations to ensure that they equip their customers with the best possible services.
Lean IT Foundation helps IT organizations to ensure that they provide their customers with the best possible services. Through understanding customer value, the processes that deliver this value, the way to manage performance, the way to organize and the required attitude and behaviour, IT organizations are helped to develop a continuous improvement mind-set. Lean IT is complementary to all other best practice methods.
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For Practitioners / deploying Lean IT. Kaizen is the Japanese word for continuous improvement using small incremental changes.
Kaizen is the Japanese word for continuous improvement using small incremental changes. It translates as change for the better. Kai means change, Zen means for the better. Kaizen is an approach for solving problems and forms the basis of incremental continual improvement in organizations. A problem is a difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with. When applied to the workplace, Kaizen means continuous improvement involving everyone, managers and workers alike, every day and everywhere, providing structure to process improvement.
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For those leaders fulfilling a leadership role within a Lean IT organization and need a clear roadmap on how to lead a Lean IT transformation.
Lean IT Leadership builds on the basic knowledge acquired through the
Lean IT Foundation. Lean IT Leadership focuses on ensuring that people fulfilling a leadership role within a Lean IT organization know what they need to do to help to develop it to a Lean IT organization. The role may be carried out in a formal or informal capacity. People following the Lean IT Leadership curriculum can benefit substantially from first understanding the Lean IT Kaizen role. One of the core tasks of Lean IT Leadership is driving and teaching continuous improvement, and the tools for this task are discussed in detail in the
Lean IT Kaizen.
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Lean IT Coach
The next addition to the Professional Certification curriculum.