--- title: For Technology Leaders | Lean AI, Lean Enterprise Institute description: "For technology leaders: not forward deployed, forward developed. Systems that scale, and teams that can still change them. Two capabilities in the right ratio: a center you build and run, and builders in the business you develop. Routes to Lean AI for Value Streams and Lean AI for Teams." --- [![LeanAI mark](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/raw_assets/public/tech-lean-org/images/lean_AI_logo_wht.png) LeanAI](https://tech.lean.org/?hsLang=en) Work With Us expand\_more [groups Lean AI for Teams Team problem solving, with AI in the method. For CI and ops leaders.](https://tech.lean.org/lean-ai-for-teams?hsLang=en) [account\_tree Lean AI for Value Streams Your ideal value stream, reached one target condition at a time. For value-stream owners.](https://tech.lean.org/lean-ai-for-value-streams?hsLang=en) [Start on your own smart\_toy Lean AI Dojo Free coaching tools arrow\_outward](https://tech.lean.org/dojo?hsLang=en) [Technology leaders hub Not forward deployed. Forward developed. arrow\_forward](https://tech.lean.org/for-technology-leaders?hsLang=en) [What is Lean AI?](https://tech.lean.org/lean-ai?hsLang=en) [Journal](https://tech.lean.org/journal?hsLang=en) [lean.org arrow\_outward](https://lean.org) [Book a Discovery Session](https://tech.lean.org/book?hsLang=en) menu Work With Us expand\_more [groups Lean AI for Teams For CI and ops leaders](https://tech.lean.org/lean-ai-for-teams?hsLang=en) [account\_tree Lean AI for Value Streams For value-stream owners](https://tech.lean.org/lean-ai-for-value-streams?hsLang=en) [smart\_toy Lean AI Dojo Start on your own. Free.](https://tech.lean.org/dojo?hsLang=en) [hub For technology leaders Not forward deployed. Forward developed.](https://tech.lean.org/for-technology-leaders?hsLang=en) [What is Lean AI?](https://tech.lean.org/lean-ai?hsLang=en) [Journal](https://tech.lean.org/journal?hsLang=en) [lean.org](https://lean.org) [Book a Discovery Session](https://tech.lean.org/book?hsLang=en) hub For technology leaders # Not forward deployed. Forward developed. Systems that scale, and teams that can still change them. Lean has always asked how to keep an organization pointed at the customer, and support the people closest to the work, as it fills with technology. The answer carries over to AI: partners in the business who own the outcome and can change the work as the technology changes. For CTOs, CIOs, and heads of engineering and data Best brought with the business leader who owns the work. [Talk about a value stream arrow\_forward](https://tech.lean.org/book?path=value-stream&hsLang=en) [Read "Deployed or Developed" →](https://tech.lean.org/journal/deployed-or-developed-the-purple-unicorn-problem?hsLang=en) The principle ## Change the work while the technology goes in. Technology changes the work whether anyone plans for it or not. If nobody changes the work and the management system on purpose at the same time, people work around the tools, reach for ones you never sanctioned, and the technology team takes the blame. That is the lesson of the [Lean Transformation Framework](https://tech.lean.org/lean-ai?hsLang=en): the work, the capability, and the management system move together, or nothing moves. lan ### Your platform team Builds and runs the core Identity, data, guardrails, and the interfaces. Yours to own, with your engineers and your vendors. handyman ### The people closest to the work Develop them They own the outcome with you, tune the tools to the work, and keep the work changeable as the tools change. The part you can't rent. Builders can come up from the work, or come in and learn it. Either way, they sit in the business and stay on your payroll. What we coach ## Governance that looks like enablement. check\_circle **Builders in the business.** People who learn to build by solving real problems, with AI in the method. Not tool training. check\_circle **What stays changeable.** Which parts of the workflow and the tools the people doing the work must be able to change themselves, how to keep them that way, and how to keep it visible when it drifts. check\_circle **How leaders support it.** The management system and leader behavior that set autonomy, widen it as capability grows, and go to see the work. **Your vision, with your people ready for it.** Your leadership, engineers, and vendors shape where the technology and the business are headed. We help the people and the work grow into it, starting in one of two places: ### [account\_tree Lean AI for Value Streams Your work transformed, one target condition at a time. Where the work and the technology change together. How it works](https://tech.lean.org/lean-ai-for-value-streams?hsLang=en) ### [groups Lean AI for Teams Team problem solving, with AI in the method. Where your partners and builders come from. How it works](https://tech.lean.org/lean-ai-for-teams?hsLang=en) Who you'd work with ## People who scaled technology organizations before the agents arrived. ![Four Lean AI faculty members on a panel in front of an audience](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/raw_assets/public/tech-lean-org/images/mockups/faculty-panel.jpg) ![The Lean Tech Manifesto, book cover](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/raw_assets/public/tech-lean-org/images/books/lean-tech-manifesto.jpg) ### Fabrice Bernhard Built Theodo to 700 people without losing startup-speed teams. Co-author of *The Lean Tech Manifesto* (Shingo Publication Award, 2025). Speaks to augmented coding and scaling without a planning department. [About Fabrice](https://tech.lean.org/team/fabrice-bernhard?hsLang=en) ![Build to Sell, book cover](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/raw_assets/public/tech-lean-org/images/books/build-to-sell.jpg) ### Sandrine Olivencia Helps executive teams build product-led organizations. Co-author of *The Lean Sensei* (Shingo Publication Award, 2020) and *Build to Sell*. Speaks to product organizations and code modernization. [About Sandrine](https://tech.lean.org/team/sandrine-olivencia?hsLang=en) ![Flow Engineering, book cover](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/raw_assets/public/tech-lean-org/images/books/flow-engineering.jpg) ### Steve Pereira Helps technology and service organizations see and improve how work flows. Co-author of *Flow Engineering*. Speaks to mapping software delivery and turning the map into action. [About Steve](https://tech.lean.org/team/steve-pereira?hsLang=en) handshake ## Bring one value stream and the leader who owns it. We'll look at the work together: where its builders come from, what its people need to be able to change, and how leaders support it. [Talk about a value stream arrow\_forward](https://tech.lean.org/book?path=value-stream&hsLang=en) [Start with a hackathon](https://tech.lean.org/book?path=hackathon&hsLang=en) ![LeanAI mark](https://tech.lean.org/hubfs/raw_assets/public/tech-lean-org/images/lean_AI_logo_wht.png) LeanAI Lean AI is a practice of the Lean Enterprise Institute. We build your team's capability to solve problems with AI, and we move value streams toward their ideal, one target condition at a time. 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