From Continuous Improvement to Continuous Innovation.
Keeping Service and Manufacturing Organizations in motion™: For nearly 40 years, we have been providing consulting and training services to worldwide Manufacturing and Service Organizations, to build their capabilities to keep in motion.
We focus on three progressive strategies: Operational Excellence, Innovation, and Leadership and Customer Centric Culture. We pioneered the implementation of Lean and TPM methodologies in manufacturing in the late 1970s. Since then, we have extended these methodologies across a wide range of business sectors: banking, finance, insurance and other service industries.
Talks of motion
Speaker at IOWA Lean Summit 2018
October 2018 - West Des Moines, IA
For the second year in a row, Ms. Converset was invited by the Iowa Lean Consortium to speak at the Lean Summit held in Des Moines, Iowa, in October 2018.
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#5 White Paper
Leaning the Quality Control Laboratory
Pharmaceutical manufacturers continue to operate in an increasingly competitive environment, contending with issues that run the gamut from lost revenue from expired, patents, ballooning costs for new drug research and development, changes required by new regulations and other compliance mandates and...
Read moreGuiding Transformation
Transform your business, stay ahead of the competition, keep your enterprise in motion. Create long term capabilities, keep your enterprise in motion to grow and improve bottom-line results.
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Leadership Development
Your people make the difference. Build leaders at every level. Becoming the master and sculpture of your own journey. Making it all work!
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motion™ – The Management System by Productivity
Imagine…
Your customers are your best supporters. Employees at all levels know their customers and actively solve problems to better serve them. Leaders team-up to prepare their long-term plans and translate them into annual objectives and work place initiatives. Leaders and managers work closely together to set direction and provide sense of purpose. An organization of networked teams fully integrated and enabled. Continuous improvement and innovation in action.
What you are imagining is an organization in motion™ and, we can help you get there!
Innovation by Productivity™
It’s time to expand your thinking on innovation.
In a rapidly changing environment, current value propositions are not enough to ensure your organization’s long-term survival. You’ll need reliable pathways for creating new value to keep your organization in motion™.
Productivity has a robust platform for creating an organization-wide innovation capability — Innovation by Productivity™.
Highlights
#4 White Paper
Kaikaku: Moving Beyond Kaizen
Andy Meyerhofer, plant manager at CertainTeed, was not sold on the 3P process when it was first proposed as the right approach to tackle a major project. In fact, he tried to sidestep it.
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#3 White Paper
Lean Practices Support Innovation
To consistently drive top-line growth, leaders must commit to a disciplined and creative focus on meeting today’s market challenges while strengthening capabilities for future competitive mastery. It’s a matter of keeping the core business running optimally without losing sight of what’s on the horizon—and being prepared for and open to “creative destruction.”
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#2 White Paper
Developing Lean Talent
A recent study by executive search firm The Avery Point Group revealed that demand for continuous improvement (CI) talent is strong post-recession; it has more than doubled since 2010 and is up over last year. Of particular interest to the lean community, this eighth annual study also showed that the need for lean-centered skill-sets is accelerating, surpassing that for six-sigma-centered expertise.
Read moreFeedback from the 2019 Lean Systems Summit – Portland 2019
How to keep Enterprise in Motion. Catherine Converset participated to the Conference for the 3rd time, to provide a Leadership perspective on Lean transformation.
Read moreProductivity Inc. to present at the Lean Systems Summit August 8-9 in Portland, Maine
Catherine Converset, President of Productivity Inc. will be participating in this annual event again this year…
Read moreLean Management et Lean Manufacturing
Les techniques Lean ne donnent pas de résultat sans le système de management.
Qu’est-ce que le lean ? Le Lean est une démarche d’excellence opérationnelle qui engage toute l’entreprise dans l’amélioration continue des […]
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