Srinivasan, Jayakanth

LAI Research Scientist

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Jayakanth “JK” Srinivasan is a researcher with the Lean Advancement Initiative at MIT, where he focuses on applying and extending lean enterprise thinking to knowledge-intensive industries. He is a member of the LAI working on the multi-year project Post-Traumatic Stress Innovations: US Military Enterprise Analysis. His 2011 book, Lean Enterprise Thinking: Driving Enterprise Transformation (co-authored with Prof. Deborah Nightingale, Amacom Press), presents both the seven underlying principles of lean enterprise thinking as well as field-tested frameworks and tools that organizations can adopt to drive their transformation efforts.

His current research focuses on the twin tracks of the sources of enterprise agility in software organizations and the architecture of innovative organizations. Prior to joining MIT, Dr. Srinivasan worked in the public sector on avionics systems and in the private sector writing networking software. His academic training includes an undergraduate degree in computer engineering, graduate degrees in avionics and aeronautics and astronautics, and a doctoral degree in computer science.