Highlights

Here you will find a host of information providing insights into operational excellence
and innovation suitable for a range of industries and experience levels…

Renewal as Resurrection – an Eye to the Future

Open your eyes to a new level of performance – where 50 to 80% improvement is possible!

Renewal presents an opportunity to reflect on your organization’s progress and make adjustments to align with strategic objectives, and personal and professional growth.

#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...

Webinar – The Power of Lean in Admin and Support Functions

Wednesday, April 15th 2:00-3:00pm EST

…discover the improvement opportunities in your service processes, in this discussion with Catherine Converset.

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Moving Forward!

Relaunching operations after Covid-19

Relaunching operations after Covid-19 is vital for the company and its employees as well as for the entire community.

#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.”

Lean 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 […]

The Balance Growth, Margin and Leadership.

Operational excellence is about doing everything needed to serve customers better and better. This is the way an organization generates customer loyalty over time and as a consequence will increase sales.

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.

Conférence AME (American Manufacturing Excellence) – Octobre 2018 – San Diego, Californie

Catherine Converset, President of Productivity Innovation hosted a seminar on Lean in the support functions: "Lean in Support Services: Deploying a True Company-Wide Strategy of Excellence".

Lean in Laboratories – Spring 2025

A 5-Day Virtual Certificate Program - March 24-28, 2025

Given the success of the previous Lean Lab event, a new meeting is scheduled from April 8 to 11, 2025. An intensive 4-day face-to-face Lean training program in French under the direction of Catherine Converset.

Setting the Stage for Success

Untapping the Huge Potential Hidden in Cross Functional Processes

Addressing administrative waste is not just a matter of improving efficiency; it’s about safeguarding morale and unlocking the organization’s full […]

The Future of R&D

Leverage Lean Thinking, Collaboration, and AI to Boost Performance.

You've Got to Set Your R&D Teams Up to Succeed. What if you could increase by 20 to 25% the number of overall projects that your R&D team can manage simultaneously…

A perfect Customer journey

Talks of motion by Catherine Converset

The customer journey should be priority #1 on everyone’s agenda. Therefore improving processes and better ways of working is essential and should be supported by Leaders.