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Read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles. Brother Shi Kai has rich experience in digital transformation projects, having served more than 100 large enterprises as a consultant and personally witnessed the digital practices of giant Internet enterprises. In more than 20 years of enterprise informatization practice, Brother Shi Kai has insight into the key links of enterprise digital transformation, and has deposited the essence of past wonderful stories and methodologies in the book, dedicating them to everyone. Whether you are an enterprise manager, a promoter of enterprise digital transformation, or a staff member developing digital products or services, you will definitely gain something after reading.

The uniqueness of the lean data method expounded in this book lies in integrating lean thinking into the practice of enterprise digital transformation, cleverly transforming boring and obscure theories into popular and interesting forms such as tabletop games, solving the confusion and problems faced by enterprises in implementing digital transformation work with minimal effort, making the underlying logic of digital transformation clear, and enabling enterprises to transform from passive to active.

More than 160 years ago, the great British writer Dickens said at the beginning of "A Tale of Two Cities": "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." The same is true today. The good side is that technology empowers business, and enterprises have gained new capabilities in business competition; the bad side is that new technologies have caused enterprise disruption. "With the Way but no technique, technique can still be sought; with technique but no Way, one stops at technique." Shi Kai's book is the "Way" that enterprises most need in this era. It takes lean thinking as the core and systematically expounds the underlying logic of data-driven digital transformation, illuminating the path forward for enterprise digital transformation.

What is written in the book is very similar to the summary of our company's digital journey in recent years, using lean thinking to position the vision and mission of enterprise transformation and upgrading, applying lean data methods to find transformation paths and required capabilities suitable for enterprises themselves, and formulating strategic implementation plans through immersive "role-playing game" workshops. This book can help enterprise executives build a systematic knowledge framework and formulate strategies, build platforms, cultivate capabilities, and formulate implementation plans and iteration paths for digital transformation in actual work, comprehensively improving the efficiency of enterprise digital upgrading.

In the process of modernization (digital intelligence or digital transformation) of Chinese enterprises, lean thinking and principles are particularly important. My former colleague Shi Kai at EMC, combining his rich experience in industry consulting and practice over the past 20 years, has sorted out and presented the best practices of lean thinking combined with digital transformation for readers in a systematic, contextualized, and key-point manner.

Shi Kai, after deep thinking, applied the management philosophy of the industrial era to the management of data elements in the digital era, which is a breakthrough. The biggest confusion faced by enterprises in the digital transformation process is no longer how to understand and apply new digital technologies, but how to systematically promote data to create value and enhance enterprise core capabilities. In this regard, this book provides a complete set of concepts, methods, and tools, which is very worth readers learning and practicing in work. The theories and cases in the book are very helpful for the digital transformation of Jingbo Holding Group.

In the digital era, enterprises' production and operation should give full play to the role of data assets and digital technology productivity. Shi Kai integrates lean thinking into the data governance system, creates value, eliminates waste, and helps enterprises solve specific problems through operational, proactive, iterative, scenario-based, intelligent, and lightweight methods. This provides very practical guidance for all enterprises that want to build data capabilities and obtain value from data. He pioneered the combination of cards representing business, technology, and data to explore business scenarios and make implicit data value explicit. This method has played a very beneficial role in promoting data utilization.

In May 2020, our company started the digital journey of traditional car companies, and I met Shi Kai on such an occasion. The lean data method he proposed at that time impressed me deeply. After following his "Kai Ge Tells Stories" WeChat public account, I gradually clarified many specious concepts. This book closely follows the current hot spots and difficulties of digital transformation, through Shi Kai's original lean data method and personal experience cases, directly faces the pain points of enterprise digital transformation. The content is interlinked and娓娓道来, very exciting. I believe that Shi Kai's pioneering gamified Lean Data Co-Creation Workshop will also make your eyes bright. Digital transformation is easier said than done, and we are always on the road.

Data-driven has gradually become the core engine of enterprise digital transformation. This book uniquely integrates lean thinking with data-driven concepts, advocates enterprises to be user value-centered and start from business problems, and introduces in detail the 6 capabilities and practice paths of data-driven enterprises. The method system is rich and complete, and the content is profound yet simple. It has strong guiding significance for enterprises confused about how to make data play value.

I have worked with Shi Kai for many years and witnessed the birth and practice of the lean data method. This method has opened up the application of lean thinking in the data field and is the result of the author's years of continuous refinement. Although this book is named a methodology, it is extremely practical and can be used as a guide for enterprise data governance work. Among them, the "role-playing game" style Lean Data Co-Creation Workshop using cards as tools, through an efficient collaborative process, improves the data awareness of all employees and makes enterprise data applications truly oriented to customer value creation. It should be an essential strategy for enterprise digital transformation!