Traditionally legacy information technology providers have been hard-pressed to keep up with the pace of innovation of cloud computing and the demands of the industry. These companies are being forced to think differently if they intend of surviving the shifting paradigm. Lenovo Group Ltd. is one company doing exactly that with its new ThinkSystem server product offerings.

“We started three years ago with a clean sheet, really listening to our channel partners and our clients. How can we simplify their experience from buying experience to life cycle management of the products to simplifying part purchases?” said Kamran Amini, general manager of the server and storage system business unit at Lenovo.

During this week’s Lenovo Transform event in New York City, Amini and theCUBE hosts Rebecca Knight (@knightrm) and Stu Miniman (@stu) discussed Lenovo’s new agile strategy of providing value through its product innovations. TheCUBE is SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio covering the latest in technology developments. (* Disclosure below.)

Innovation requires an agile mindset

Lenovo isn’t just preaching agile methodologies; the company is exercising agile practices even in organizational design.

“The culture is very flat; everyone’s empowered to make a decision. There’s no hierarchical decision making … people are empowered to make decisions that are beneficial to our clients, and we’re seeing a huge focus around customer experience,” Amini said.

This new line of thinking and organizational structure is enabling individual business functions to add customer value, which collectively makes a big impact on the company as a whole, he added.

“With Lenovo, you’re seeing a lot more agility — from our supply chain to how a customer gets quotes, from a product perspective and support, we’ve been transforming as we go. We constantly learn and try to enhance that going forward,” Amini stated.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s independent editorial coverage of the Lenovo Transform event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Lenovo Transform. Neither Lenovo Group Ltd. nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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