Sponsors & Exhibitors

Conference Sponsors

Growing Northeast Ohio’s Economy One Company at a Time: Clear-cut training initiatives with measurable results tied to bottom-line profitability. Corporate College offers employers affordable, cuttingedge and custom-designed training programs to enhance future workforce development, job growth and job retention in Northeast Ohio. At Corporate College, employee participants engage in lifelong learning that builds knowledge, skills and abilities, which furthers their vitality in the workforce and their bottom-line performance. Specifically,

Corporate College strategically partners with companies to help them become more innovative, more productive and thus more profitable through the investment in training, education and employee development. Key Goals: Foster Innovation, Achieve Organizational Growth, Create and Retain Jobs, Assist in Workforce Planning and, Leadership Succession, Increase Productivity and Profitability.

Website: www.corporatecollege.com

Since 1986, George Group has created an unsurpassed record of successful partnerships with Global 2000 companies. We have built thought leading practices in the critical areas of value creation: Fast Innovation: The only true approach for creating innovation that is fast, differentiated and disruptive and delivers market leading growth Conquering Complexity: Unique, patented methods to eliminate the complexity in your offering that your customer will not pay for Lean Six Sigma: We are the global leader in creating Lean Six Sigma operations for service and product companies We deliver both the strategic insight and operational execution required for our consulting clients to surpass their growth, speed and cost goals. Further, we create the essential capability and cultural transformation for our clients to achieve and sustain superior shareholder returns. We invite the CEO concerned with growth in shareholder value to read the executive overviews of our groundbreaking books and compare alternatives.

Website: www.georgegroup.com

At IBM, we strive to lead in the creation, development and manufacture of the industry's most advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, networking systems, storage devices and microelectronics. We translate these advanced technologies into value for our customers through our professional solutions and services businesses worldwide. At IBM Global Business Services, our expertise ranges across key business issues and deep into 17 industries in virtually every country and every culture worldwide. Our business experience is real. And so are the results we bring to our clients. We've helped them unlock value in areas such as HR, sales, marketing, finance, accounting, business strategy, supply chain, logistics and procurement. We've shown them new ways to transform their business, their thinking — and their bottom line.

Website: www.ibm.com

JMP a business unit of SAS: Spend more time learning Six Sigma and less time learning software. JMP provides powerful analytics, custom design capabilities and a flexible scripting language in one solution that supports all phases of the DMAIC process. Our Six Sigma Menu, an intuitive navigational tool, maps the analytic capability of JMP to all DMAIC principals.

Website: www.jmp.com

SBTI is the leading Lean Six Sigma consultancy with a history of 60+ corporate deployments. SBTI delivers a full range of services that include strategic planning & assessments, multilevel leadership workshops and Belt training. We provide the knowledge needed to link Lean Sigma with your strategy bringing quick and effective results. Building Better People. Building Better Companies.

Website: www.sbtionline.com

Now celebrating more than 70 years of pioneering process improvement innovations, today Rath & Strong is the leading global provider of Lean and Lean Six Sigma solutions. Rath & Strong’s clients include companies such as: Johnson & Johnson, Wyeth, Nortel, DHL, US Postal Services, UBS, and Schneider. Rath & Strong pioneered Lean methodology by helping bring this powerful concept to the West in the 1970’s. Rath & Strong was also a pioneer in Six Sigma when at Motorola, Rath & Strong consultants like Dorian Shainan helped clients Bill Smith and Bob Galvin develop what is now called Six Sigma. Today, Rath & Strong does leading work in Lean Six Sigma for companies worldwide. Rath & Strong’s full solutions approach offering consulting, coaching, and training creates change that sticks and achieves significant quantifiable results and sustainable competitive advantage.

Website: www.rathstrong.com

Associate Sponsors

The BESCORP mission is to help clients achieve better results, faster. Implementation plans are tailored to each customer's unique requirements, incorporate the best practices of Lean, Six Sigma, and Theory of Constraints (TOC) and are aligned with the strategic and tactical objectives of the business and the Shingo Prize Award for Excellence. A satisfaction guarantee is provided and clients.

Website: www.bescorp.us

Minitab is the leading provider of quality improvement software. Our flagship product - Minitab® Statistical Software – has been used to implement virtually every major Six Sigma initiative around the world. Minitab also offers Quality Companion by Minitab™ for process management, as well as world class training and software customization.

Website: www.Minitab.com

North Carolina State University harnesses the power of Six Sigma under the leadership of Dr. A. Blanton Godfrey, Dean of the College of the Textiles and former CEO of the Juran Institute. This program focuses on applying advanced statistical tools to industrial, service, and healthcare processes. Our program offers Executive Overviews, Champion training, Green Belt training and certification, Black Belt training and certification, and Master Black Belt training and certification. For more information visit our website.

Website: www.tx.ncsu.edu/sixsigma

Website: www.ies.ncsu.edu/SixSigma

PowerSteering is the leading On-Demand, Enterprise Project and Portfolio Management software for Six Sigma, Information Technology, Business Transformation, and other project-intensive areas. Rated the top project tracking software in iSixSigma Magazine, more than 100 organizations use PowerSteering to improve strategy alignment, increase visibility and enhance productivity of their strategic initiatives.

Website: www.powersteeringsoftware.com

The Global supplier of enterprise software for linking that strategy to the detailed projects that implement it and the key performance indicators that measure its impact. i-nexus has global clients across a variety of industries, including companies such as Pfizer, BT, Kavlico (a Schneider Electric Company), GMAC, Alstom, AREVA, Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS and YICT. i-nexus is the only 100% web-based software solution to integrate the performance, project and process management capabilities needed to manage improvement as a closed-loop process. 90% of leading Six Sigma consultancies recommend i-nexus.

Website: www.i-nexus.com

Pivotal Resources builds change leaders: companies and people who can execute initiatives that lead to compelling products, delighted customers and world-class efficiency. Our Change Leadership™ system leverages powerful improvement methods including Lean Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing and Business Process Management. Pivotal’s consulting & training services have delivered impressive results for organizations like yours - worldwide. Our expertise and flexible approach to each client’s unique needs can help you drive a more innovative and responsive organization - putting you firmly on the road to sustained success.

Website: www.pivotalresources.com